Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [pron] thought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember the , the days of the , the armistice when we thought there was a lot of the with the teachers and er , this is faintly in my mind , we heard all the mill whistles blowing . |
| 2 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 3 | ‘ I think Gran might have demanded the money because she thought I had a right to it , but it was for love of me and despair at our poverty — her kind of rough justice . ’ |
| 4 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 5 | Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love . |
| 6 | In that house lived a bricklayer who murdered the baker because he thought he 'd stolen one of his pigs . |
| 7 | I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with . |
| 8 | I 've seen the play and I thought it was quite like a farce . |
| 9 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 10 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 11 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 12 | He pitied the poor mutt who ever fell for the face and the figure and who thought there was something behind them to match their perfection . |
| 13 | BOURNEMOUTH gave Harry Redknapp a £100,000 golden handshake when he left the club because they thought he was quitting football , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 14 | She was just about to turn away from the window when she thought she saw something suddenly move in the far corner of the walled garden . |
| 15 | He went to the top of the steps and looked around , he could n't see anyone or anything untoward ; he looked out of the window and he thought he saw a figure on or around the track . |
| 16 | Partly , I was n't doing the work because I thought my tutor had decided I was a poof but , more importantly , I was dragging my feet because I was n't keen on the work itself . |
| 17 | I said , she 's alright , but it was n't the ordeal that she thought it was going to be . |
| 18 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 19 | And just at the point when she thought there was no more power of feeling in her , some deep instinct took over , and she found her body moving fervently with his rhythm . |
| 20 | Yeah , on the six o'clock they said it was half way through and Nigel Mansell was the lead and I thought you were watching it live , so I would n't just come through and |
| 21 | The crowd gently goaded him by chanting : ‘ Kenny what 's the score ? ’ and afterwards Dalglish admitted : ‘ I am disappointed we did n't get anything from the match because I thought we played well enough . |
| 22 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 23 | And I give him three mo cos I 'd give him three months guarantee with that , I thought yes and I was standing there on the phone and I thought you dare come back ! |
| 24 | the boys says they all had a good time … one fell into the water but he thought it was excellent fun … |
| 25 | Alasdair Milne , director general from 1982 to 1987 , said : ‘ Birt has no understanding of the BBC if he thought he could get away with this . ’ |
| 26 | Mum and Dad and Mr and Mrs Lewis entered into the spirit of the occasion but I thought I could see some sadness in Mrs Lewis 's eyes . |
| 27 | ‘ A number of people asked us if we could save the ponds and we thought we might be able to do more than that . |
| 28 | I used to have to go to the toilet if I thought I was going to fight anyone , or just go to bed and close my eyes and think , ‘ Not long , not long , not long to go ’ , to keep myself down there . |
| 29 | Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ? |
| 30 | I was floating overhead — I was n't visible to the daleks and I thought I should come down and see what the Awful Warning was . |