Example sentences of "was [pron] [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Lucky for me , ’ she said that night at supper , ‘ that coders often work in pairs so there was someone to help me along . |
2 | ‘ I told myself it was because of the play , but deep down there was something driving me back to you . ’ |
3 | ‘ That was him asking me where I was going , in case you did n't notice . ’ |
4 | The sound of the collision was what woke me up : a terrible grinding , smashing wrench . |
5 | That was what made me so nervous when we played , knowing they were both watching . |
6 | Summerhill — which , by the universal testimony of its ( largely American ) pupils , ‘ sucks ’ — seemed to be turning out children who were not merely unbalanced but pig-ignorant ; and that was what shocked me so much . |