Example sentences of "[adv] [that] [pron] thought [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only that I thought I might move house in a couple of years . |
| 2 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
| 5 | Piers turned around to face her , and for a split second his glance swept over her with appreciation , but the moment was gone so quickly that she thought she must have imagined it . |
| 6 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |
| 7 | Luce sat perfectly still , her eyes on his face , her heart beating so loudly that she thought he must hear . |
| 8 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |