Example sentences of "[pron] thought [pron] had [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 I thought you had to put the lid on it for , if you did it for quarter of an hour ?
2 I thought you had taken the cab to Reading . ’
3 Even though I thought the job was really mine I thought I had to create the impression of somebody who was , you know , above board , for , you know , the Catholics .
4 Lord above , I thought I had endured the worst of insults already this day !
5 I thought I had missed the fish and cried out in pain .
6 For one thing , I thought I had cleared the nest recently , and that if she was sitting on anything at all , her clutch could not number more than two or three eggs .
7 But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ .
8 Oh I thought I had to get the estate agent first and then get the space .
9 I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question .
10 She struggled to start the van and just when she thought she had flooded the engine it spluttered into life and she eased out into the road .
11 I think she thought I had taken the wind out of Rossetti 's sails … .
12 ‘ And you thought we had spent the night together ? ’
13 We thought we had killed the idea off .
14 We thought someone had stolen the horse and cart . ’
15 Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre .
16 Later , however , I did tell him that the meeting had been a disaster and that if he thought it had mollified the press in any way he was greatly mistaken .
17 But when he thought he had reached the peak of his misery and was regretting ever coming to this place the rain started to slow and ease off .
18 Incidentally the Mirror mentioned that Lee Chapman has a new book out in which he ‘ reveals ’ that Frogslegs left in a huff because he thought he had carried the can for the defeat by Rangers .
19 Once he thought he had found the perfect room but leaning against the wall it started to collapse and he narrowly escaped just seconds before the ceiling fell on top of him .
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