Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after all this I felt I was ready to retire . |
| 2 | Some who heard him were impressed and a few were frightened . |
| 3 | To be honest I thought it was this other bloke who . |
| 4 | When I was younger I thought I was fat , even though I was actually skinny , looking at photos . |
| 5 | But I do n't think it 's three thousand I thought it was four thousand . |
| 6 | Sorry to keep chasing you but , well , I wanted to make sure you knew I was serious . ’ |
| 7 | All who met him were staggered by his easy command of innumerable languages , by his polished manners , by his superb musicianship and by his mastery of courtly pursuits like hunting and playing chess — not to mention his astonishing good looks . |
| 8 | all you told me was that Miss was retiring . |
| 9 | His chest reads , ‘ My Mom and Dad went to Canada and all they brought me was this lousy T-shirt ’ . |
| 10 | All Americans go Eh Nine o'clock tomorrow I 'm going over to Kate ten thirty that gives me a bit of lee-way I 've got a at ten I thought it was ten thirty I ought to get some money out really You 're not going into Woking tomorrow morning are you doing your quiz ? |
| 11 | ‘ Is there a chance Ed phoned Sandy and told her something important — something so important someone thought it was dangerous that she went on living ? ’ |
| 12 | Thus , as the political centre grew in importance , those who ignored it were unlikely to gain legitimacy as political newspapers . |
| 13 | whatever you know , cos at first I thought he was hot in his cot and |
| 14 | At first I thought I was dead , but after that everything is a blurr . |
| 15 | Nothing wrong with it , but at first I thought it was nondescript , and then I thought it felt weird . |
| 16 | Neelam : Well first I thought it was twenty something but then I realised it was six ; two take away six ca n't do that … so … um … it went down to ten . |
| 17 | At first I thought it was some pimps , the door literally came off its hinges . |
| 18 | At first I thought it was some ague but it proved to the Sweating Sickness . |
| 19 | His grey hair was cropped so short that at first I thought it was bald . |
| 20 | At first she thought it was one of the old ones and she almost wiped it out . |
| 21 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 22 | At first everybody thought he was homosexual . |
| 23 | And at first it seemed she was lucky . |
| 24 | At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections . |
| 25 | At first he thought I was mad , but when I took the live animals out of my pocket to show him , he believed me . |
| 26 | At first he thought it was some kind of a St Christopher medal , but it seemed too thick . |
| 27 | At first he thought it was unfamiliar to him , but then , with a shock , he realized it was Rafiq 's . |
| 28 | All Irene said to me was that what worried her was that ‘ she had said nothing to her ’ . |
| 29 | Most saw it coming and in March , 1939 I knew it was inevitable . |
| 30 | Being Russian she knew it was possible … |