Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the hour Rick and I were both catching plenty of fish . |
| 2 | Would that I were fit to woo you as what you seem & are , sweet heart ! |
| 3 | I was obliged to assist him to the easy chair towards the window , so that he could sit upright , for his coughing was agonising at times . |
| 4 | My daughter , who was six years old at the time , was delighted to be sleeping in Mummy 's bed and I was delighted to have her with me . |
| 5 | And I was sorry to miss you at the Keppels 's thrash ; I hope that you are recovered ? |
| 6 | — I was surprised to see you in there . |
| 7 | ( When I practised this meditation , while writing this chapter , I was surprised to find myself in a small , dusty American town in the days of the Western . |
| 8 | ‘ I was surprised to find anyone on board , ’ she told him . |
| 9 | His face filled with sly mockery , he allowed his eyes to slide insultingly over her , and a sneer pulled at his mouth as he said softly , ‘ Maybe I was wrong to ditch you after all . |
| 10 | Once or twice I started swinging very badly , but as I was using my only hand to stop myself bleeding to death , I was unable to do anything about it . |
| 11 | ‘ I was glad to see her at the pictures with you , ’ Anne said . |
| 12 | Purvis had even stood up , maybe in the expectation of aggro , so I was glad to disappoint him by greeting Lewis like a soul brother and flashing fifty quid at him . |
| 13 | I was glad to send her to Lowood . |
| 14 | Less discordant , but just as remote , is the recollection in 102 : ‘ Our love was new , and then but in the spring , /When I was wont to greet it with my lays . ’ |
| 15 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
| 16 | But in her case I was able to leave her in here much longer . |
| 17 | I was able to accommodate him at each time , you follow what I mean . |
| 18 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 19 | At one stage it was thought that the old lady would be written off , but luckily it was not to be and the following year I was able to take her from Buckie with a new lease of life . |
| 20 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 21 | During the next week I was able to tell something about our hospital and work . |
| 22 | She was taking a secretarial course , and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital . |
| 23 | I was able to throw myself into my work , which helped to take my mind off the fact that she was gone . |
| 24 | Then , after a further interval , I was able to drag myself into my little cave . |
| 25 | ‘ I was able to get plenty of turn on those . |
| 26 | But I was able to transfer it onto a separate system and compile that and produce the lexicon there . |
| 27 | Using my 7 × 50 binoculars I was able to locate it at once , though I would not have had the slightest hope of finding it had I not been told exactly where it was . |
| 28 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |
| 29 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 30 | I was supposed to use it for 20 minutes on each side in between Holly 's feeds , which were every two or three hours anyway . |