Example sentences of "what [pron] thought [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 2 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 3 | In one store the manager tried to sell me what I thought was obsolete software . |
| 4 | ‘ Robert would have turned the fire extinguisher on you , ’ said my mother with what I thought was unusual perception . |
| 5 | Based on what I thought were proper symptoms , Puls. was given but with only temporary relief , and slight lowering of the blood pressure . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like to remind you that you 're in my house , ’ Alyssia pointed out , with what she thought was unassailable logic . |
| 7 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 8 | I wonder if you have ever been in that awful position of facing what you thought was certain death . |
| 9 | If you write it yourself it may turn out to be invalid , or there may be legal ambiguities in what you thought were clear requests . |
| 10 | People walking across what they thought was firm snow would fall through into fast running streams that had n't even been there before . |
| 11 | We had to placate them by appearing in what they thought was acceptable guise . |