Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you were right to reproach me over McAllister . |
| 2 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 3 | In practically every case the publishers were prepared to supply me with information which was not generally made public . |
| 4 | ‘ Newcastle were supposed to contact me over the weekend , but I have n't heard anything , ’ rapped McGraw . |
| 5 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 6 | They were happy to fly me to ‘ the land of the midnight sun ’ at any time . |
| 7 | ‘ But they were unable to chain me with their own powers , ’ he said , softly . |
| 8 | During the ensuing three weeks the French Foreign Minister , M. Sauvagnargues , was due to visit me in London for talks , as was the Turkish Foreign Minister . |
| 9 | It was cruel to lock me in there alone without a candle . |
| 10 | Your father was right to warn me about you ! ’ |
| 11 | My mother was prepared to back me in anything I wanted to do . |
| 12 | I could hardly follow them on their wanderings unless one or other of them was prepared to take me on her saddle while she stood upright pedalling . |
| 13 | Simon was supposed to take me for lunch an hour ago , ’ she said , hearing herself rattle on , yet unable to stop , ‘ but he seems to have forgotten and I 'm hungry and — ’ |
| 14 | Jenny was supposed to meet me at the airport . " |
| 15 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 16 | ( Once at a committee meeting when I claimed to be the most nostalgic person present where railways are concerned , Russell was quick to put me in my place — second . ) |
| 17 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 18 | I have been interested in the dynamics of the golf swing for ten years , and John is an expert on instrumentation who was able to help me with the experimental work . |
| 19 | J. had been with the now famous 617 Squadron for a time , and in talking about this he was able to furnish me with details of an incident which I had vaguely heard of while I was at Bourn . |
| 20 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 21 | as if he was the clerk who was happy to help me with my transaction . |
| 22 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 23 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 24 | The stucco on the houses that rose like cliffs of grey stone in the rue de Sèvres was enough to depress me in itself , blotched as it was with building acne , let alone the drains blocked with refuse and the greasy pipes round which foaming suds slept fitfully . |
| 25 | Mueller is the oldest , the most successful and probably the best known of all currently active downhillers , so the sight of him volunteering to do the donkey work in a one-horse FIS race was enough to humble me into removing my skis and following him , along with 138 other racers ! |
| 26 | He was silly to tell me about the date over the door . |