So you would say in the past tense "I lay on the bed because I was tired."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

The magnolias die so quickly when you bring them in, so I had to draw it quickly before I started in on the stitching."

VOA: special.2009.11.04

"I was raised on a small farm in southern Indiana and Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

"First of all, I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook because in the YouTube age, whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

"Promoting our common goals around education,health care, energy,public safety, and,I think in each of those areas, you actually see on the floor here new innovative ideas to take advantage of this general purposes technology that broadband is, and apply it to provide better services at lower cost in each of these areas."

VOA: special.2010.01.26

You can sleep on it.If you still feel like going in the morning, - I'll take you to the airport.- No. I want to drive.

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I think they trust each other, now that does not mean we are going to agree I mean,you do not agree in a family on everything,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

It's the Botanic Garden's largest collection. "I think when most people come in contact with orchids, I think the orchids take hold of them, it's like you get hooked on them.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

"If you contrast what is happening in this crisis to what we saw in the last major global crises of the last several decades, I think you are seeing more action now on a broader scale,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"When,in the context of Iran, you talk about the rise in the price of gas, you will see the impact of that on everything else, and I mean everything: not only transportation, but also production or presentation of tomatoes in the market,bread.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"I was raised on a small farm in southern Indiana and Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others and never cease trying to be the best you could be, that is under your control."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

I think I know The truth is hiding in your eyes And its hanging on your tongue Just boiling in my blood But you think that I can't see What kind of man that you are If you're a man at all Well, I will figure this one out on my own I'm screaming I love you so My thoughts you can't decode How did we get here?

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