Example sentences of "[pron] think [that] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | He let everyone think that he was calling from his own area , and not from the middle of their territory . |
2 | I thought that he was talking about the LBGC , the London Boroughs Grants Committee . |
3 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
4 | I thought that it was made of stone , but to my horror I discovered it was made of cement blocks ! |
5 | I thought that I was gon na have to er , talk about phasing but I think that he 's dealt with that quite adequately but I certainly will be happy answer any questions afterwards if if there are any . |
6 | ‘ I was shocked when Bristol City released me because I thought that I was doing well , ’ said Vernon , who has now scored four times in three games for Bath but has not yet started a game . |
7 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |
8 | ‘ I thought that she was going to cry . ’ |
9 | Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she 'd have somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man . |
10 | Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she had somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man . |
11 | I think that he was pulling himself down to touch the pit of his character . |
12 | She thought that everything was composed of heat and corruption and water — that we live off death and water — and she resented her own blinding mortality . |
13 | She still felt that she was floating — or , more accurately , she thought that she was floating precisely because she could n't feel . |
14 | He grasped the back of her neck with his hand , and his kiss became fiercer , hungrier , until she thought that she was going to drown in it . |
15 | Like Angela she would not want a poor doctor , and sooner or later would tire of her play-acting and retire back to that world — he wondered why she had left it , and what she thought that she was doing here in the East End , so far from her family and friends . |
16 | She thought that she was becoming rather an accomplished liar . |
17 | ‘ Why should that worry you ? ’ inquired Memet , and for a horrid moment she thought that he was warning her not to speak ill of the love of his life , but he went on : ‘ She 's not a nice woman , ’ he said . |
18 | He took a step towards her and for one heart-stopping moment she thought that he was going to kiss her , and then where would she and her collection of high-minded resolutions be ? |
19 | For a moment she thought that he was going to hit her , but she continued looking at him mutinously , not caring what he did . |
20 | She thought that he was stretching out his lordly paw and playing idly with her , and he in his absurd fireman 's jacket . |
21 | It seemed to bow in the centre ; for one terrible second she thought that it was going to split . |
22 | He appears to have worried the Byzantines , who thought that he was planning an attack on Constantinople . |
23 | He is as you know , 67 , but I have never been amongst those who thought that he was growing old and tired … he is , I think , just as fit as the day when I first saw him in July 1946 . |
24 | Fortunately , and by pure chance , I had said nothing that could lead her to assume that we thought that she was travelling with them — as arranged . ’ |
25 | Despite the joy she had out of being with him on the ‘ Carry On ’ set , she for one thought that he was wasting a great deal of his time . |
26 | They thought that it was going to be all easy . |
27 | And if they thought that she was going to invite Colin and Yvonne in for a drink when they arrived they would get a shock . |
28 | To this day he thinks that he was accepted into the Royal College chiefly because Minton felt strong sympathy with the macabre apparition he presented . |
29 | Just the flicker of a smile when he thought that nobody was looking ( but Jed had practised the deft glance in the mirror and he did n't miss much ) . |
30 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |