Example sentences of "and [pron] think [pers pn] was the " in BNC.

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1 But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest .
2 It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap .
3 When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last .
4 There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) .
5 that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one
6 And I thought he was the one who killed her , too , ’ said William , ‘ when they finally told me . ’
7 Then the Reverend called , with his news about the weather turning stormy , and I thought he was the last person we needed to hear from .
8 There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over .
9 Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really
10 and I think it was the twenty third squadron that they have here .
11 Quarterly meetings which they call them that was held in er the Odd Fellows Hall in Forest Road and I think it was the March January February March quarterly meeting that they er the ballot was taken for delegates for the conference .
12 The voting er you voted for them at the delegate meeting and I think it was the six top six highest in the vote became the standing orders .
13 Yeah I think it was he but I be quite sure and I think it was the boyfriend was number thirty , but I do n't know other one , right out of the window where the porch is .
14 I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard .
15 And we thought it was the way that we tret it !
16 And he thought he was the hero . ’
17 The sea murmured , and he thought it was the trees .
18 The trees murmured , and he thought it was the sea .
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