Example sentences of "thought [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I might die while I waited : might die in the night . |
| 2 | But I thought I would wait until I heard you arrive , and then I knew I should be all right . ’ |
| 3 | I know a man there , so I thought I 'd see if they could use my services writing leaflets , or propaganda or something , I do n't know . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I 'd wait until I made a go of it before I told you . |
| 5 | Just thought you ought to know before you sell your soul ; you ca n't get it back . |
| 6 | I thought you might panic if I suddenly loomed up beside you in the darkness . ’ |
| 7 | Well I thought you 'd come cos I very rarely get many people in much before er |
| 8 | I thought she would die before she went . |
| 9 | He put his hands on her shoulders , towering over her , his powerful body so compelling that she thought she would fall if he let her go . |
| 10 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But if we 're going to spend the evening together I thought it would help if we knew more about each other 's backgrounds . ’ |
| 12 | I thought it might help if I took the flowers off him , so I reached out and lifted them carefully , holding the stem ends away from me . |
| 13 | that never did anything , that we inherited , and when we moved all that stuff that was on there , all that junk , erm , when we first moved , I thought it might flourish when it sorted it , but it 's kind of spindly so , that 's gone , no , no , another bush , over this side |
| 14 | ‘ My brother , thought he would dine before he obeyed the summons , and by this delay the child was dead before he arrived … |
| 15 | Sinatra seemed to reach a point where he thought he could do as he liked . |
| 16 | As it was , she became more and more incensed as she tried to break out of his limpet-like hold , the result being that when she did manage to break free she was so outraged — just because she was a female contracts officer , the boss 's son thought he could do as he liked with her — that she verbally tore into him . |