Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 2 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 3 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 4 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |
| 5 | When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last . |
| 6 | There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) . |
| 7 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 8 | ‘ And I thought he was the one who killed her , too , ’ said William , ‘ when they finally told me . ’ |
| 9 | Then the Reverend called , with his news about the weather turning stormy , and I thought he was the last person we needed to hear from . |
| 10 | I come back to Stuart and I said it is the second of November is n't it ? |
| 11 | And I cal , I called Alec yesterday morning like and asked , you know I said to him there 's only one and I said it 's the last one down there like . |
| 12 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 13 | I had seen Come Blow Your Horn and kept my eye on what he was up to , and I knew he was the right person for that part . |
| 14 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 15 | ‘ And you assumed I was the father , no doubt ! ’ |
| 16 | She had never known anything like the need that rent her , and she knew it was the same need that was racking Luke 's rigid body ; and still it escalated as they succumbed to a welter of tumultuous embraces , caresses and kisses , their staccato breathing punctuated by the sharp sounds of desire , their skin damp with perspiration . |
| 17 | Well she had this cup for him , there was no handle on it and she knew it was the dog 's so |
| 18 | They were heavy and sparkled when she held them to the light , and she thought they were the most beautiful things she would ever own . |
| 19 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 20 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 21 | And she said it 's the fact that she 's carrying the extra |
| 22 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
| 23 | Four middle-aged women got out of it , and she guessed they were the Women 's Institute members who had been checking the bush walk on behalf of the Institute . |
| 24 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 25 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 26 | And we thought it was the way that we tret it ! |
| 27 | For a moment Ben could n't understand what was going on , then one of them turned and he saw it was the captain , a man called Rosten . |
| 28 | And he thought he was the hero . ’ |
| 29 | The sea murmured , and he thought it was the trees . |
| 30 | The trees murmured , and he thought it was the sea . |