Example sentences of "thought [pron] were [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you were going to be a farmer . ’ |
| 2 | When we got married there were no wedding cakes , no wedding do 's , you were just glad to get married , you thought you were going to be better off , but really you 'd no idea . |
| 3 | I thought you were going to be here in London for ages . ’ |
| 4 | What you and Sam thought you were going to be doing . |
| 5 | I thought you were meant to be watching your blood pressure . ’ |
| 6 | I thought you were gon na be an Ovaltiney again ! |
| 7 | I 'm going back to the erm controversial emotive subject of atomic power I suppose , as you said earlier , the the atomic bomb and erm I suppose the most worrying thing for er for everybody was when erm the Cuba crisis was on and everybody was just waiting for these mushrooms to appear over London because we all thought we were gon na be bombed at any time but er obviously the other thing that sort of worries people is other things that you said about Chernobyl and Three Mile Island but on the other side , obviously the erm the low cost of atomic power must be the advantage for the future . |
| 8 | He was angry because of the circumstances ; I was angry because I thought we were going to be robbed of the Open . |
| 9 | For a while there I thought we were going to be up the creek without a paddle . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought we were going to be killed , and you enjoyed it ! ’ |
| 11 | After the first couple of minutes I thought we were going to be in for a really entertaining game . |
| 12 | Three right so perhaps someone had divided this pizza up and all the extra people kept coming in and your mum was saying , Oh no I thought there were going to be three and now there 's six of us . |
| 13 | I thought , I thought there were gon na be a good ride , but . |
| 14 | I thought they were pretending to be offended — but people were honestly upset by it and I was flabbergasted . ’ |