Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was anxious to alert people to the to the specific issue of strategic planning I did n't want to step outside of that . |
| 2 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 3 | It was one of the reasons why I was anxious to learn English at school : so that I could tell her in her own language how grateful I would always be . ’ |
| 4 | I was fortunate to see Fred play on many occasions and really admired his carefree style of play , carefree and yet he was probably one of the best iron players I ever saw . |
| 5 | Keith , accordingly , had a commission made out , but , as the admiral complained , ‘ behold he had not passed , I ordered three captains to examine him , he declined to go , consequently I was obliged to tear the-commission ’ . |
| 6 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 7 | I immediately set about trying to fulfil Mr Farraday 's wishes , but as you know , finding recruits of a satisfactory standard is no easy task nowadays , and although I was pleased to hire Rosemary and Agnes on Mrs Clements 's recommendation , I had got no further by the time I came to have my first business meeting with Mr Farraday during the short preliminary visit he made to our shores in the spring of last year . |
| 8 | However , I was pleased to welcome Ms Judith Evans who is the departmental director of corporate personnel . |
| 9 | As a regular user of OnTime for DOS I was pleased to see Campbell Systems release and update to both their Windows and DOS versions of this invaluable personal organiser/notepad/time manager . |
| 10 | Central Government is encouraging us to borrow , and I was pleased to hear Councillor on papery actually accept that borrowing under F T C was acceptable . |
| 11 | Mr Benn is a thoroughly charming man , and I was pleased to pay tribute to him when I got up to speak . |
| 12 | Last February I was pleased to launch Lothian 's first Road Safety Plan which declared a bold set of initiatives designed to reduce the number of road accident casualties in Lothian by a target of one-third by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 14 | But I was disappointed to see Hendrie and Sheridan go for roughly 500K each . |
| 15 | But I was disappointed to find space for back seat passengers as cramped as in the 5 . |
| 16 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't make the dinner date either , I was due to play golf in Houston that week . ’ |
| 18 | And it was me , and I was due to have Nicola the next month , at the beginning of May that the and I said no , I said ! |
| 19 | I was due to start Lord Hulton 's tuberculin test at 9.30 a.m. and as I drove round the back of the Elizabethan mansion to the farm buildings nearby I felt a pang of misgiving ; there were no animals in sight . |
| 20 | Off I went to resume normal existence and my first priority , since it was now nearly nine o'clock and I was due to meet Jack Mason at a quarter to ten , was breakfast . |
| 21 | ‘ I was relieved to see Perry save that one . |
| 22 | Sir , — I was relieved to read Mr Marshall 's letter ‘ Keep the audit , save the practice ’ , ( ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 6 ) because it tells me that there are others who share my fears for the small practitioner . |
| 23 | I was dismayed to see epilepsy included under ‘ Madness — The Facts ’ ( The fear of madness NI 209 ) . |
| 24 | Because I was desperate to save Kirsty — and because I did n't realise what type of woman Janice was . |
| 25 | Or maybe , on a honeymoon with Raymond , I was desperate to see love everywhere . |
| 26 | I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the egg trick in a recent colour supp. profile . |
| 27 | I was delighted to receive Nonesuch , which is both entertaining and informative . |
| 28 | As chairman of the Co-operative parliamentary group , I was delighted to see Sir Dennis Landau 's comments on behalf of the CWS . |
| 29 | Chairman I was delighted to hear Mr and our members with the comments , it was not just an officer from , the members ' comments as well , and I hope we can work together in fulfilling these promises , what are the most important roads ? |
| 30 | AS WITH all the coverage the Echo has so kindly given our Battle of the Atlantic project , ‘ Battle Stations ’ , I was delighted to read Will Rolston 's piece in Friday 's edition . |