Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was upset for a while , but I do n't seem to care any more . |
| 2 | I was speechless with a mixture of fear and embarrassment . |
| 3 | All that evening I was obsessed by a feeling of dread . |
| 4 | I suppose I was overdue for a move . |
| 5 | Before leaving to begin The Great Waldo Pepper for George Roy Hill and Robert Redford , Goldman later recollected in his Adventures in the Screen Trade : ‘ I was present at a meeting at which some guys said , ‘ Dustin Hoffman is getting hot . |
| 6 | In my younger days , ’ he bellowed , pulling his shoulders back martial fashion , ‘ I was keen as a greyhound , fast as a falcon swooping to the kill . ’ |
| 7 | In my visits to schools as a member of the Kingman Committee , I was impressed on a number of occasions by the imaginative use of word processing in the classroom . |
| 8 | I was impressed by a deluge of letters from the Masons which assured me that both men were entirely innocent of importing cannabis as the police alleged . |
| 9 | At 12.15 I was due at a function to pose for a photocall to launch a twenty-four-hour helpline for a worthy and deserving charity . |
| 10 | Of course I was due for a humiliation . |
| 11 | I was stricken with a love so vast that I could n't find the edges . |
| 12 | In the end , I deliberately threw her at you because I was desperate for a sign of jealousy from you . |
| 13 | I did a length just to loosen up and by the end of it I was desperate for a cigarette . |
| 14 | A friend and I were in the back streets of St Tropez , looking for a taxi , and I was desperate for a pee . |
| 15 | Back in Britain a year or two later , I was one of a panel collected to perform before a group of young Americans who were paying Richard Demarco , Edinburgh 's most flamboyant cultural entrepreneur , for the privilege of drinking the wisdom of the New Scottish Enlightenment at source . |
| 16 | I was one of a group of army cadets taken on an adventurous training camp , at Newtonmore , to learn new skills . |
| 17 | I was one of a profession just becoming popular and common — the visualiser for the armchair quarterback . ’ |
| 18 | After three years there I was head-hunted by a marketing agency , D. F. & L. Associates , which was based just north of the City . |
| 19 | But I was married with a baby then , and , in 1949 , this was considered my first duty . |
| 20 | I was married for a couple of years in the seventies . |
| 21 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 22 | I was sixteen without a care in the world and my only thoughts at that time were on how soon I could get hold of my own barrow . |
| 23 | Say I was involved with a gallery and they called me up tomorrow , and said , ‘ Alison I want you to do this painting ’ , I could just comply . |
| 24 | Along with Siemens Italia SpA president Giorgio Scanavacca , Italian legal authorities arrested Davide Giacalone , former advisor to Oscar Mammi , former minister of post and telecom , on bribery charges : Giacalone is charged with having accepted $5.3m from Giuseppe Parrella , former managing director of ASST , Azienda Telefonica dello Stato SpA , in the minister 's study ; Giacalone has already told the police that he passed the money on to representatives of the Republican party ; for his part , the former PTT minister declared his innocence : ‘ That I was involved in a history of billion-lire bribes is as unfounded as it is untrue — at whatever moment the magistrates tell me it is necessary to investigate my accounts , I will liberate myself immediately from parliamentary immunity , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I was involved in a protest in the morning race of a world championship and the hearing was not until later that evening . |
| 26 | I was shocked for a minute . |
| 27 | I have upon my shoulders so many cares as a landlady that I feel bowed down whereas , and I do not think my memory faults me , I was freer as a maid . |
| 28 | I was quiet for a moment . |
| 29 | ‘ I was angry for a while because I was confident that the horse would win , but Willie did the right thing , ’ John Sutcliffe , Superoo 's trainer , said yesterday . |
| 30 | They are and I I think the whole trouble with Jenny was that not having , I mean , I was alright as a sort of mum subject I was n't the same as a bona fide mum that could be called upon in all weathers , at all times , to do everything |