Example sentences of "i was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got there I was immediately admitted for observation . |
| 2 | I was practically screaming with frustration . |
| 3 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 4 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 5 | I was repeatedly threatened with rape and at one stage they tried to make a fellow detainee rape me . |
| 6 | During my years in Oxford , working as I was largely in the field of recent Anglican ecclesiastical history , I was increasingly drawn to Anglicanism . |
| 7 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 8 | I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings . |
| 9 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 10 | Yeah , that was like me , I mean like I 'd , I was n't bad like , cos all the time I was just wearing like polo necks or like shirts with high collars and stuff cos it was n't actually on my neck it was just like on my , this one . |
| 11 | Oh right I I was just thinking of sort of trying to you know cos he 's in his second year now for the |
| 12 | Um I was just thinking about y'know |
| 13 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 14 | Even now I am ashamed when I think of the night I ‘ let fly ’ to one of our best auxiliary nurses who had come to ask me to help when I was just going off duty . |
| 15 | I was just going to bingo . |
| 16 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 17 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 18 | Yes , this , this actually , thank you Chairman , this actually is very much an example of , of what I was just saying about consultation . |
| 19 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 20 | Well I said , I was born in and I was also born in Terrace . |
| 21 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 22 | I was also dropped by winch onto a precariously narrow ledge , while reporting on the police rescue team in the Avon Gorge . |
| 23 | I was probably reacting in part because leaving Genesis was a sad note . |
| 24 | They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes . |
| 25 | ‘ I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara . |
| 26 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 27 | I was usually summoned by telephone and invited round to Downing Street at 8 p.m. , when Wilson would be alone in the Cabinet room , which he preferred to any office or study , and where , sitting at the long Cabinet table , I often found myself in the seat normally occupied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and enjoyed moments of brief delusional glory ! |
| 28 | I was suddenly filled with fear and doubt . |
| 29 | The irresponsibility of this helped me to escape the force of the problems , but at the same time I was constantly troubled by suspicion . |
| 30 | In my youth I was constantly pursued by fishkeeping groupers . |