Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course you can imagine how careful he was carrying it with that in it . |
| 2 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 3 | " Drewy " Leask , one of our local customs staff , same with us as local pilot , and very glad I was to have him on board as he was able to show us many remote anchorages and isolated harbours that I would never otherwise have dared approach . |
| 4 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 5 | She never would say why but I felt almost sure she was doing it against him , either to spite him or to gain his attention . |
| 6 | He had been sure one was following him round Sainsbury 's the other day . |
| 7 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 8 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 9 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm surprised he was given it at all , really . |