Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pers pn] think [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well naturally I was I was raving wild when I got up and that 's well the lads I thought they were going to turn the van over tell you the truth . |
| 2 | I mean it going back to the days I think it was Professor Jode , it depends what you mean by class . |
| 3 | This CCOAC makes it more likely that Person Y was involved in the things we think he was involved in but … ’ |
| 4 | And a lot of people realise that the things they thought they were going to do ( marry for love and have three children ) or hoped to do ( swim for Great Britain ) are less likely to come true . |
| 5 | At the top of the stairs I thought I was going to be sick and returned stiffly to the bathroom . |
| 6 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 7 | Soaking wet and with some difficulty I managed to salvage the dory , with one brand new Mercury outboard from underwater and , backed up by my crew , asked the skipper what the blazes he thought he was up to . |