Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was stupid to kiss you first . |
| 2 | I was due to pay my second visit to my surgeon after my operation , and I had committed myself to returning to the Centre for a day visit at the end of October . |
| 3 | I was delighted to see my old friend Bessie again . |
| 4 | I was disgusted to read your snide attack ( Disinformation , FACE 19 ) on ‘ White South African Musician Johnny Clegg ’ , who is one of the only white artistes in that country who has been fighting apartheid and trying to deal with it on the inside . |
| 5 | Nothing nothing to worry about I was I was happy leading my own erm quiet little life you know . |
| 6 | I was appalled to hear his jovial , jocular style . |
| 7 | Now that my thought-processes were working again , I was eager to discover what dreadful catastrophe had overtaken this part of the world . |
| 8 | I was glad to get your last letter , which sounded so much more cheerful and relaxed than the first . |
| 9 | We built the Sydney Bridge I WAS interested to read your front page article ( Echo , May 7 ) and the follow-up on the business page the following day in connection with Cleveland Structural Engineering and the Hong Kong bridge . |
| 10 | I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went . |
| 11 | But just to have you near me I was willing to give it all to you . |
| 12 | I was free to express my own thoughts and feelings — it hurt sometimes . |
| 13 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 14 | I was careful to find them some distance from Upper Thames Street . |
| 15 | I was able to visit her several times and then , in my capacity as literary editor of New Hungarian Quarterly , I was often sent to make contact with poets in America and so on . |
| 16 | I was able to persuade my chief ground instructor to let the crews pick themselves , I placed the pilots ' names on a blackboard with four spare slots for the rest of the crew . |
| 17 | So I stayed with him for quite while until I was able to tackle my own half a stint , not a full stint , which was nine yards . |
| 18 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 19 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
| 20 | Here again I was able to prove myself useful and to gain a little kudos : I could compose with what seemed to others an astonishing facility an ode or sonnet on behalf of some lovesick junior and addressed to some beefy , lacrosse-playing heroine in whom I myself had no emotional interest whatsoever . |
| 21 | Since I since I left school and I was able to afford my own clothes and I knew that erm a responsibility for my own clothing was on my my own shoulders , it has never bothered me since , for myself . |
| 22 | I even felt that I was able to accept his new and perilous choice of military service . |
| 23 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Everything seemed to fit , ’ she continued shakily , ‘ I was afraid to trust my own judgement . |
| 25 | I was ready to chuck it all in after a decision that flew in the face of reason . |