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

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He told his son-in-law in December: "I will not say I would not serve if the good people were to be so unwise as to elect me."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

He continued to do so today. "If I was on that road, I would say I was on that road,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

"So I should say six point five per cent growth projection would be a very comfortable sort of target that the government can have."

VOA: standard.2009.10.16