Example sentences of "[pers pn] thought [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | ‘ When I saw Dustin Hoffman in Peter Hall 's production , which was strong and clean , I thought that the strength of the production showed up what an awful play it is . |
| 3 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 4 | I thought that it was still possible for there to be a political link between the United Kingdom and India . |
| 5 | I thought that the ribbons were beautiful , all the colours of the bunch of flowers painted on the cover . |
| 6 | I thought that I would go in and explain the whole thing to him and explain that there was no point in creating trouble unnecessarily . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought that you said this was decadent music , ’ Erika replied . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , I thought that you had a partner . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I thought that you wanted me to go , ’ Erika said . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought that you said this was an important matter , ’ Herr Nordern snapped . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought that he 'd have something to do with it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought that you would like a coffee in bed for a change . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought that we would go up the Television Tower and see the view , then go to the museums , especially the Pergamon , then the Palace of the Republic , then … . ’ |
| 14 | My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table . |
| 15 | No , I thought that perhaps a stroll down Unter den Linden — such memories for me there — and then I have another idea . |
| 16 | ‘ Uncle , I thought that you would like to see the very spot where they burned the books , ’ she said . |
| 17 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
| 18 | As I looked at this mounting pile of equipment I thought that there was no way this was going to fit into the spare bedroom . |
| 19 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 20 | I thought that this was it … |
| 21 | I thought that private investment could have been used more imaginatively in the period of the 1980–1 recession and was not satisfied with the Treasury 's replies . |
| 22 | I thought that I could make my contribution by joining the Trade Union movement , and improve things from there . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I thought that once , ’ said Gazzer , ‘ but it might not be so easy … . |
| 24 | When I was much younger , and not as religious as I am today , I thought that religious Jews had sex through a hole in a sheet , wore clothes from the last century , and were generally out of touch with life and the world we live in . |
| 25 | The gulls were wheeling and crying above the parapets of the ornate bridge and for one mad moment I thought that they , too , were engaged in an elaborate mockery . |
| 26 | ‘ In my other capacity as head of Merill Lynch , I opened an office in Tehran … during the 70s … and I thought that that country had quite a future . ’ |
| 27 | I said sir , up until now I thought that in Costa Rica there were only four or five people that knew about this place . |
| 28 | But when I played it I thought that in some of the climaxes the original twenty-three strings were too few to make a full effect . |
| 29 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 30 | I thought that Doone might not think of looking in Perkin 's workroom for a match to the arrow 's wood . |