Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You believed you were vampires because someone told you that too . ’ |
| 2 | And er last time I came it was Doctor and he changed |
| 3 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 4 | Yes they look like erm yeah I thought they were gourds when I first saw them . |
| 5 | The officers , who had been observing Scott 's house after the robbery , denied this but Scott insisted they were police as he attacked them . |
| 6 | I resigned from the family planning about seven years ago when my husband retired , as I say because he used to help me very much and when he retired and my children had all married I felt it was time that I should retire too . |
| 7 | Oh well i somewhere ne I thought it were Scunthorpe but it 's not Scunthorpe it 's Newark it 's up |
| 8 | The rocket motor was on and you were speeding up — you were accelerating , and you thought it was gravity because there was no way to tell them apart . ’ |
| 9 | Lightning flashed across her vision and she thought it was concussion but it was the pilot putting on his cabin-lights . |
| 10 | Well no , he has got a bad throat an you know , he had a little lump in his throat , I think they thought it was cancer or something or a little growth , but you often get that in the throat . |
| 11 | We just sat there , we thought it was Christmas so we took a |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , I thought it was Canada where you studied . ’ |
| 13 | I said it 's ages since I 've had her all on my own . |
| 14 | Jinny supposed it was Keith and she looked round , ready to make sure he knew how stupid he was to come now . |