Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] i thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best . |
| 2 | Or what I thought of then as love . |
| 3 | Occasionally I was lucid enough to remember that I must never write about what was going on , or what I thought was going on . |
| 4 | I later phoned the course and obtained a thorough briefing — or what I thought was a thorough briefing — on the available runway . |
| 5 | He had n't suggested the film might not come out although she could n't have had time to develop it yet and she was n't working through a ‘ friend ’ sent round to sympathise with him deplore the whole thing and assure him it could be stopped if he 'd only tell that terrible woman one little thing … ’ — And since I 'm not married or anything I thought I 'd stick to the personal angle . |
| 6 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 7 | worse than what I thought |
| 8 | there you go ooh it 's lower than what I thought it were . |
| 9 | I said it 's lower than what I thought it were |
| 10 | I said you 're more naive than what I thought cos he hates , he hates me and vice versa , and he said er , who asked your opinion ? |
| 11 | that 's what I did , and I I thought the same thing . |
| 12 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 13 | And I I thought I 'd put to Mr Donson and Mr Loc Professor Lock to the district councils . |
| 14 | In that respect it seems to me that it is not something that is necessary to come through the full procedure of the council in order for you to do and I I thought that would would deal er establish . |
| 15 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
| 16 | I thought he the way he acted and I I thought he was er a real comedian . |
| 17 | And I I thought the only ones I 've ever seen and they 've got like things like three eight and Chevvy or maybe a V er . |
| 18 | I just wanted to come back on er David Potter 's assertion that we were looking for a a higher allocation under I five and I I thought I 'd specifically covered that point by saying that that was n't what we were looking for because that would n't address the sort of development we 're talking about here . |
| 19 | Cos I I thought the the pit was quite well known for being a poor poor payer . |
| 20 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 21 | This er a question that Mr raised last Thursday of Friday and which I thought I 'd clarified Leeds position on . |
| 22 | Er and we I thought we 'd agreed earlier |
| 23 | Binding later described how he was told ‘ to arrange a crew and equipment , ladders , steps , scaffolding , cylinders of hydrogen and personnel for repair of airship skin and everything I thought necessary to salvage this airship . |
| 24 | A lot of them concerned the Arsenal team and what I thought about them . ’ |
| 25 | Cameron , impressed but evidently rather baffled , minuted that he approved of the proposals and found them ‘ entirely in accord with what we wanted and what I thought was being practised ’ . |
| 26 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 27 | And what I thought was the prettiest sight in Hannah 's meadows was the Geranium sylvaticum , or hay sward , which is a beautiful blue with a tinge of violet . |
| 28 | And what I thought was happening , you see , was that , if you can imagine this kind of psychological or metaphysical equilibrium point that we all start from , then I , I sort of perceptually changed . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember now , I know I 've had a go to have a look at them to see how , to see exactly how , cos what I thought , what I thought I was gon na do was , I did n't like the furniture of the , of the speakers and when I was keeping that system I was gon na remount the speakers in the box a bit more you know decorative |
| 30 | Cos what I thought , if I had a bigger you can always turn , you can always turn them up for us sew them and all that . |