Example sentences of "i was [adj] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half an hour before I was due to go off , he made my half-hour point . |
| 2 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 3 | I was reluctant to go out again ; I just sat on the bed , trembling . |
| 4 | I 'd left with nothing because he was still in the house and I was terrified to go back . |
| 5 | I was frightened to go back to the place that had torn me apart . ’ |
| 6 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 7 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 8 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 9 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |
| 10 | Before and after his marriage , Nicholson could date happily without fear of a single solitary piece of salacious writing in any newspaper or magazine — ‘ complete anonymity in social exchange ’ was the way he described his situation — or , as a further succinct explanation , ‘ I was able to go around picking up stray pussy . ’ |
| 11 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 12 | ’ And then mercifully he lost interest and fell asleep and I was able to go back to my researches in the library . |
| 13 | So then I was able to go back to the library . ’ |
| 14 | I was prepared to go back and copy . |
| 15 | I was afraid to go back home for fear of the trouble I 'd be in from Mum . |
| 16 | But I was afraid to go back to the village . |
| 17 | I imagined it as clearly as one could , to the point where I was ready to go out and buy my burial outfit . ’ |