Example sentences of "thought [pron] could [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of you thought I could n't do it , ’ chuckled Pipe , who then gave credit to Dickinson for the role he played in Granville Again 's timely revival . |
| 2 | I had intended to go to Downing Street , but then I thought I could n't bear it if old Chamberlain came out waving a bit of paper and smiling his death 's head smile , so I just lay down in the park instead . |
| 3 | I thought I could n't find them last week . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you could n't stand him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you could n't stand them . ’ |
| 6 | Include also those items which you wanted to have in the past but dismissed because you thought you could not have them or simply forgot about them . |
| 7 | I thought they could n't join them . |
| 8 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |