Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] i thought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 2 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 3 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 4 | Once you get out of car and I thought it was a dog that she had , bu did n't have , she did n't have a dachshund he had a little |
| 5 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 6 | I was , I was in the loo and erm they were , they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they 've got a club book , I did n't think any more of it , and when I came out they got , both of them out of the boxes . |
| 7 | There was no sign of Cawthorne and I thought I 'd come too far . |
| 8 | Though these measures are not due to necessity , as the people here are glad to be of service to us and treat us with courtesy in which not a little deference is admixed , for as I say they count many simple things great wonders : my fine paste shoe buckles ( the only part remaining after some native rats that are very large and like to be tame devoured the rest of the appurtenances ) inspired much clicking of teeth and clucking of tongues till I thought I should have to part with them . |
| 9 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |
| 10 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 11 | But they used to ask me for things but I thought there were enough s erm shops here really . |
| 12 | It has made me question every aspect of my teaching , including things that I thought I was doing well ! |
| 13 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 14 | The way people talk over here is pure poetry and nobody is really using that in songs so I thought I 'd have a go . ’ |
| 15 | actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone |
| 16 | When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last . |
| 17 | ‘ The team had put on a marvellous display out in Georgia and I thought we 'd get a few more than 6,000 . |
| 18 | I was in love with her , as much in love as I thought I was capable of being . |
| 19 | I 'd been shopping in Smiths and I thought I recognised him . |
| 20 | Yeah I se well I happened to be coming home from school cos I thought there was a the hearse coming and then I watched two mourning cars two flashy great big things ! |
| 21 | So I did n't make a loss but I did n't make a profit on the bit of space that I need that I was using for storage cos I thought it was only fair to the poor bloke . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'd written all these books about sex and I thought he 'd know all these exciting things and I 'd just be so ordinary . |
| 23 | ‘ If you had come to England as I thought you would have done , ’ she interrupted frostily . |
| 24 | I learnt not to talk to strangers and I thought it was funny . |
| 25 | I 'm just about to go to bed and I thought I 'd ring and see how things are with you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was n't ; it was only when I was talking about it to Gina that I thought I ought to come here and tell you . ’ |
| 27 | on now this year to have me mum and dad cos she never had them at Christmas and I thought it 's not fair , you know , she 's the |