Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] be [art] " in BNC.

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1 oh , they may of been updated then , the question I asked you was a different one , when was the moment when they became inaccurate ?
2 And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever .
3 Well when we got it home I realized it was the battery lead that was just a little bit of lead
4 On odd nights that would worry me but in time I realised they were the kind of neighbours who never caused a disturbance .
5 ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had .
6 ‘ I got out of breath drying myself after a bath and I realised I was a bit overweight , ’ said Mervin , who now tips the scales at just over eight stones !
7 He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough .
8 And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said .
9 It shocked the life out of me when I realised you were a virgin .
10 She tried hard to remember , and I realised she was a touch drunk .
11 I expected it was the loss of her husband , so I bought some material and made bead bags , and bags I filled with chalks , and a small drawing board for her quite intelligent little girl .
12 The job I found him was an undemanding clerical one .
13 When I first found this I thought , Oh , it 's a sort of truck , well , well , and then I walked up here and I found it was a truck with — ’
14 However I found I was a lot more satisfied when everything slipped into place .
15 I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men .
16 When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field .
17 I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer .
18 ‘ Look , Superintendent , I assumed they were the source of the information in the first place . ’
19 Potential new readers of Spare Rib would not think of looking under that section for a women 's magazine , and I assumed it was a mistake on the part of overworked staff .
20 I assumed it was a KGB trap , ’ Volkov admitted .
21 I assumed it was a woman .
22 I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’
23 I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy .
24 I assumed you were the type of patient who would have been told … ’
25 I could lie , I could bluff , but what I told you is the truth .
26 I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol .
27 Not that there is anything to lose by keeping the door open , but really I believed it is every man for himself .
28 I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means .
29 ‘ I killed her in the field because I believed she was the devil . ’
30 But from what I 'eard she 's a bit of a thing little more than half his age .
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