Example sentences of "[adv] i [was/were] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
| 2 | but I said that you know eighteen might be a push but I would n't be surprised if we got twelve or fourteen at that time of course we had n't actually had any education events cos the one that we scheduled has been cancelled so I was perhaps a bit naive about how many people actually turn out to these things |
| 3 | ‘ Well I was never a serious goth , ’ she claims . |
| 4 | Kept , and I did n't have any chocolate , well I was only a kid , but |
| 5 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 6 | At least I was still a virgin , technically speaking . |
| 7 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 8 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 9 | Yes , I had all the other feelings of distress and fear , I thought of the world at war , I remembered the last war of 1914 — 18 when I was still a schoolboy and I had experienced the air raids on London then . |
| 10 | It began one morning at breakfast in the days when I was still a bachelor and Tristan and I were taking our places at the mahogany dining table . |