Example sentences of "was [adv] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you know it 's funny how why it was so I mean the grit and those were quite sharp you know You you 'd have thought that it would have taken your skin but then it was ideal stuff for getting the grease the you know the dirt and I mean the the greasy dirt away . |
| 2 | As soon as school was over I took the train from Hammersmith to Whitechapel , then continued the rest of the journey on foot to Charlie 's home . |
| 3 | Chapter 3 provides information on a variety of religious faiths , and it was here I found the text least satisfactory . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , it was then I noticed the sound . |
| 5 | It was then I remembered the oil pastels . |
| 6 | It was there I suffered the nervous breakdown . |
| 7 | And that was where I got the knowledge about the extra money , and that is the only thing that I remember about from him . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think that was where I saw the body ? |
| 9 | The only moment when he seemed ill at ease was when I raised the question of the forced repatriation to Russia at the end of the war of thousands of White Russian and Cossack soldiers from camps in northern Italy and Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 11 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 12 | ‘ The first time I came out of my shell was when I saw The Who at the Marquee . |
| 13 | I think it was when I saw the London policeman wagging a finger at a scowling urchin that I thought of Wesley Binks and the time he put the firework through the surgery letter box . |
| 14 | And I wa commented on it to you , it was when I borrowed the maternity robe from Penny and she |
| 15 | ‘ As soon as he 'd gone that was when I called the police . |
| 16 | That was when I scraped the fender on a protruding lump of rock . |
| 17 | I FELT I had to write and say how moved I was when I visited the exhibition of wood-cuts by Hong Song-Dam . |
| 18 | That was when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984 . |
| 19 | The final straw was when I bought the buttons , and on sewing them on , found the shop had supplied one odd one . |
| 20 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 21 | For me however , the biggest eye opener was when I joined the fundholder group in Grampian and their meetings with the provider units . |
| 22 | But that was why as I understood it , that was why I wanted the sealer . |
| 23 | The person who told him was actually I suppose the person who 's family owned the grave that |