Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked what was the oldest part of the farm and was shown a flagstone path leading down to a valley . |
| 2 | I asked what was the problem and they told me not to bother my pretty head with scum . |
| 3 | I asked which were the next tallest and she picked out the only two of the next size . |
| 4 | I asked which were the smallest , and she picked out the three shortest ones quickly . |
| 5 | I came here eight years ago from Unilever , and the standards I respected there are the ones I would try to uphold at Cancer Relief . |
| 6 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 7 | Well when we got it home I realized it was the battery lead that was just a little bit of lead |
| 8 | On odd nights that would worry me but in time I realised they were the kind of neighbours who never caused a disturbance . |
| 9 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 10 | that Robert 's already gone over , but I actually got the impression that erm I that you did n't feel relaxed in what you were doing , you knew what you were talking about but erm you did n't feel relaxed and if I 'd 've been your customer then I , I certainly would n't have felt relaxed either and and that 's the impression that I got which was the completely opposite of Robert . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 14 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , Superintendent , I assumed they were the source of the information in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I assumed you were the type of patient who would have been told … ’ |
| 19 | I could lie , I could bluff , but what I told you is the truth . |
| 20 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 21 | ‘ I killed her in the field because I believed she was the devil . ’ |
| 22 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 23 | I reckoned he was the minister Clare was planning to denounce and I set about trying to discover his secret for myself . ’ |
| 24 | I guessed it was the shock of Froggy 's death , and the tension of caddying for one of his contracted professionals . |
| 25 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 26 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 27 | On answering the phone I discovered it was the manager of my football team , Bob , to say that due to a waterlogged pitch the game was off . |
| 28 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 29 | Playing tunes that bring a smile to my face and a sentimental tear to my eye , for the last time that I heard them was the day of the first Gittel 's wedding . |
| 30 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |