Example sentences of "thought it was [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 2 | The February 1974 election turned out to be close , but few thought it was going to be close at the time . |
| 3 | I thought it was going to be worse than it was . |
| 4 | I really thought it was going to be sort of ‘ You must not drink ever again' and ‘ You naughty boy , you must n't do it ever again' sort of thing . |
| 5 | Eric Brown then went and did that in the third round , but at that stage I thought it was going to be between Peter , Christy and Dave . |
| 6 | He was our biggest danger in the end , although I thought it was going to be Tom 's four-ball partner Bert Yancey who might prove the biggest threat . |
| 7 | Retirement was n't as good an idea as he thought it was going to be . |
| 8 | I thought it was going to be marvellous . |
| 9 | Monie said : ‘ I thought it was going to be a nice , smooth change-over with Steve ready to take Joe 's place . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But all in all I suppose it was n't as bad as I thought it was going to be , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I thought it was going to be easy . |
| 12 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 13 | For a moment , Preston thought it was going to be all right . |
| 14 | The target moved from where the beams thought it was going to be . |
| 15 | I thought it was going to be a holiday home , but my husband had different ideas . ’ |
| 16 | But whether they thought it was going to be too hard work , and , and it certainly was very hard work . |
| 17 | As she slowly started to unpack and get ready for bed , she thought it was going to be amusing to see his face when he found out exactly who she was tomorrow . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought it was going to be first come , first served . ’ |
| 19 | I thought it was going to be Peter to pick me up . |
| 20 | At first Juliet thought it was going to be fun . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Ven replied , and taking a long pull of breath , ‘ I do n't seem to be doing this very well , ’ he stated , ‘ but at least we 're talking — which makes it less difficult than I thought it was going to be . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 23 | I thought it was going to be one of those horrific accidents but it does n't seem like it now because he was brutally injured . ’ |
| 24 | I thought it was going to be , yes yes . |
| 25 | I thought it was going to be a magazine ? |
| 26 | I said , she 's alright , but it was n't the ordeal that she thought it was going to be . |
| 27 | Not as cold not as cold yet as I thought it was going to be . |
| 28 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |