Example sentences of "i was [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And that 's why I was pleased when the Whitesnake opportunity came along in ‘ 77 , because there was more feel to their music then . |
| 2 | I was unaware of this and ca n't afford it anyway , so I was pleased when the manageress of the shop next door came up with the bright idea of playing it in my rest room , where the public are not allowed . |
| 3 | ‘ I was disappointed when a move to the club fell through earlier in the season because I believe my style would be suited to the English game . |
| 4 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 5 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 6 | But I was asleep while the while they took it . |
| 7 | I was feeling a bit pissed off : I was sore where the fickle Shelly had left her mark and I was distinctly peckish . |
| 8 | I was relieved when the daylight came and I could surrender to the exhaustion in my brain . |
| 9 | Pears said : ‘ I was stunned when the gaffer told me just before training . |
| 10 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 11 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 12 | I was thankful when the time came to go to the City Division H.Q. |
| 13 | I was six when the war started . |
| 14 | Times were not so hard for businesses then and I was grateful when a year of events raised £107,000 . |
| 15 | I was grateful when the rucsacs appeared on the carousel ; Tromsø was a full jacket cooler than Oslo had been . |
| 16 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
| 17 | I was shocked when the voting was nine for ( c ) and seven for ( d ) . |
| 18 | Though later when I did the piece in Vienna I was furious when the orchestra showed up with five basses and a dozen first violins . |
| 19 | ‘ I was puzzled when a paper recently called me a ‘ bread head ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 21 | I was surprised when the doctors said the injury had gone . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was surprised when the crowd at the Dylan show booed her . |
| 23 | But I was surprised because the songs are so good that even when they 're getting massacred by cats and dogs or Germans or Russians they still stand up . |
| 24 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 25 | Yeah , erm when I started digging up I was smaller than the fork , the fork was , yes ! |
| 26 | I was glad when the door banged noisily behind me . |
| 27 | But I was glad when the dinner was over , and Herbert and I could walk quietly back to our rooms together . |