Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 2 | But the formula which brought them together was widely , and justifiably , condemned as unwieldy and tedious . |
| 3 | I do n't know what sort of a pistol he held to their heads , but I personally was quite happy and had never been looked after so well in my life . |
| 4 | I told her I just was just going to take photographs . |
| 5 | Most importantly , I 'm infinitely happier now than I ever was before . |
| 6 | After a while she shrugged her shoulders and said , ‘ You know , I do n't think I ever was really committed to Christianity . ’ |
| 7 | I always was rather patronizing towards Anne . |
| 8 | I probably was actually . |
| 9 | Which meant I probably was like awake to start with , because I , although I got up at seven , I still was n't ready to go to bed at eleven , cos it was still too early , and usually I go to bed about two . |
| 10 | Nearly was yours nearly was nearly got it I 'm supposed to remember when I put these tapes on , half past seven till quarter past eight twenty past eight to when God this is gon na be awful , I shall never start , no leave that . |
| 11 | I really was most pressing . ’ |
| 12 | yeah , I really was quite , quite upset about it , well I do n't blame you for it I would n't of minded if she 'd said this morning when I 'd asked her |
| 13 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 14 | She killed two birds with one stone and offered apologetically , ‘ I really was terribly thirsty . ’ |
| 15 | I here was hardly a corner of British industry in the Sixties which did not suffer strike action of one sort ; much of it lengthy , acrimonious and ultimately futile . |
| 16 | We own the building and all the partners have keys , so unless someone else was here she could have been in and out without anyone noticing . ’ |
| 17 | But someone else was ahead of him , from that same doorway . |
| 18 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 19 | Someone else was already in possession of the sea-watching hut . |
| 20 | Trying to pretend he had mistaken her for someone else was obviously not going to work . |
| 21 | In a recent MORI survey , only 52 per cent of those questioned thought that having sexual relations with someone who is married to someone else was morally wrong . |
| 22 | I actually was very pleased indeed to have the opportunity . |
| 23 | But I never was quite sure . |
| 24 | Custis endorsed this in a reply , ‘ … he is the most takeing faceitious man I have ever met with and I never was so much delighted with a stranger in all my life ’ . |
| 25 | The twins were pretty young — I never was much good with babies — and were called Anastasia and Lucifer — yes , Lucifer . |
| 26 | I never was very good with bread mm I was n't |
| 27 | I never was very good cutting bread |
| 28 | mother and I hope father and I will be around to want to pick up what we can to help you 've got ta start thinking about standing on your own feet , you know , because admittedly I er I , I , I could turn out to be not as bad a financial state as I anticipated but I never was stinking rich and I 'm certainly not stinking rich now , so erm I mean |
| 29 | I do n't think they had contracts in those days ; I certainly was never given one to sign . |
| 30 | It was so funny — as I walked along , rather disconsolate in the rain , at midday , I suddenly recollected it was Mayday , & knowing I ought to be bright & rejoicing I forthwith was so , at least for a time . |