Example sentences of "what [pers pn] thought " in BNC.
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| 31 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 32 | Yet somehow life 's not what I thought it , |
| 33 | What I thought of as mainstream cancers were called Carcinomas and they developed in the lining layers of the organs , such as the lungs , the bowels , and the skin . |
| 34 | I had tried three of them , swallowing the small amounts in the glass with what I thought was a superbly noncommittal expression when I discovered that in the middle of the room were two iron spittoons , waist-high . |
| 35 | That 's what I thought , too . |
| 36 | I was just so frustrated by what I thought was Frank 's intransigence . |
| 37 | ‘ If I told you what I thought of your pluck … ’ |
| 38 | So I told him what I thought , and we parted after that . |
| 39 | It was much darker under the trees now and , afraid of not reaching the village before nightfall , I branched off on to what I thought was a short-cut . |
| 40 | I did what I thought was right for the most precious thing in the world to me . |
| 41 | ‘ That 's precisely what I thought was interesting . ’ |
| 42 | Cameron , impressed but evidently rather baffled , minuted that he approved of the proposals and found them ‘ entirely in accord with what we wanted and what I thought was being practised ’ . |
| 43 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 44 | Andrew Jackson got a bit nearer what I thought we were asking for with his ‘ Crazy For You ’ from Madonna in support of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 45 | ‘ What I thought is , I 'd like to meet you and we could have a chat and so on , ’ she intoned nervously . |
| 46 | ‘ I was so amazed by it all , I had to play the video on the team coach coming home to confirm what I thought — that Ipswich won with their only effort on target . |
| 47 | I had acted out of good faith and in terms of what I thought were the best interests of my client . |
| 48 | ‘ If the suggestion I heard just now , ’ I said to McIllvanney , ‘ was what I thought it was , then do n't make it again . |
| 49 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 50 | ‘ I had worked out what I thought was a good routine for him and had his personal stunt man run through the scene for him , ’ said Cannutt . |
| 51 | ‘ Friends , enemies , Englishmen , ’ I began , ‘ hear now the claims of Scotland ! ’ , and for four minutes I spelled out what I thought they were . |
| 52 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 53 | ‘ That 's what I thought . |
| 54 | ‘ Yes , that 's what I thought ’ . |
| 55 | ‘ That 's what I thought when I first came . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ The guy tried to trip me up , so I told him what I thought . |
| 57 | Yes , that really is what I thought . |
| 58 | Do you know what I thought when I heard that ? |
| 59 | Or what I thought of then as love . |
| 60 | What I thought we might do is to explore this phenomenon a little further , just the two of us together , but making sure we take things very carefully all the time . ’ |