Example sentences of "[pers pn] thought [that] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that he was talking about the LBGC , the London Boroughs Grants Committee . |
| 2 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 3 | I thought that it was made of stone , but to my horror I discovered it was made of cement blocks ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought that she was going to cry . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She still felt that she was floating — or , more accurately , she thought that she was floating precisely because she could n't feel . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She thought that she was becoming rather an accomplished liar . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | For a moment she thought that he was going to hit her , but she continued looking at him mutinously , not caring what he did . |
| 16 | She thought that he was stretching out his lordly paw and playing idly with her , and he in his absurd fireman 's jacket . |
| 17 | It seemed to bow in the centre ; for one terrible second she thought that it was going to split . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | They thought that it was going to be all easy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For a moment he thought that he was looking at another river — black , smooth and straight between its banks . |
| 24 | Because he thought that he was dealing with the National Press rather than simply a few local people whom he had been ignoring for a considerable time , the Mayor responded to direct questioning , even if he did not change his colours . |
| 25 | He thought that I was trying to provoke him . |
| 26 | As ever he thought that she was faking her problems . |