Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The first time we met I thought she was gorgeous but I did n't ask for her phone number because I imagined every man must do that .
2 ‘ I assumed everybody felt they were different from everybody else … it would be a pretty sad individual who did n't feel that they were unique . ’
3 I never realized you thought she was dead . ’
4 When that happened it meant he was drunk , sprawled out on the sofa if he had n't been able to reach the bed .
5 I had to get up because when I walked I found it was easier .
6 As soon as I realised they thought I was knackered from the same route they had just walked , I was speechless with indignation .
7 ‘ I dreamed I wished you were dead . ’
8 the people , most of the people I knew who said they were happy living in their flat
9 I thought you knew I was anti-social .
10 Thought you said it was twelve .
11 ‘ I thought you said it was clean ! ’
12 I thought you said she was asleep .
13 ‘ Yes , I thought you said you 're sorry . ’
14 Thought you said you 're bald .
15 I thought you said he was fourteen .
16 Yeah I thought you said yours was ninety
17 ‘ I thought you liked it here , I thought you thought it was fun living in England and sleeping with me . ’
18 ‘ I thought you reckoned he was good-looking , ’ Vitor remarked , as the Dane drove away .
19 Oh he said I said it 's six weeks ' that she 's been here .
20 Said she would never think , she said I thought it was real !
21 I said I thought it was that
22 I said I thought it was that way but , you know , agreed with them .
23 ‘ I said I thought you were uninhibited but strangely naïve .
24 In the course of that memo , I also said I felt it was necessary for me to safeguard and consolidate my position with the company .
25 So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button .
26 Only one woman out of the forty actually claimed unequivocally to like ironing , and she said she knew she was unusual , particularly in the satisfaction she gets from ironing shirts , an activity which many of the other housewives said was the most intolerable of all .
27 All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death .
28 Judge Richard May said he accepted they were genuine supporters of animal rights .
29 He said he said it 's ludicrous
30 Ingleton School is a Church of England junior and infant school and Mr Boocock said he thought it was appropriate for the issue of the church 's role in education to be discussed in church .
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