Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] thought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the way he was looking , his parted lips , his wondering eyes , she felt desire , a flicker of it , the first sign , the first time for months , a movement like a string being plucked where she thought her womb was . |
| 2 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 3 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 4 | It takes me places that I thought I 'd never see |
| 5 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the City 's surveyors department said : ‘ There was an element of confusion after the blast because the Chamber of Shipping building had partially collapsed and we thought there might be similar damage to the Baltic . |
| 7 | I do n't know cos we thought you 'd be the only one who actually managed to get a copy when nobody else could lay their fice for the af from two o'clock in the afternoon yeah F finalised |
| 8 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 9 | I says no she says have you got one I says no but I was gon na say Ange has cos I thought she wanted to defrost something . |
| 10 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 11 | His voice was muffled and I thought he was trembling . |
| 12 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 13 | It was n't vital to come but I thought I ought to . |
| 14 | The kids were mortified but I thought it was a real hoot . ’ |
| 15 | I was absolutely devastated because we thought we had done nothing wrong . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Do n't know whether they thought I was gon na leave home at half past five this morning . |
| 18 | I went into the gardens one Sunday morning with the dog found a body in a sleeping bag and I really did n't know whether I thought it was alive or not alive so I went rather closer and I got a very defensive angry stare from a young man and I said to him I 'm not going to ask you to move , because you 've probably got nowhere to go , my real concern is are you okay . |
| 19 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 20 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 21 | ‘ Some also commented that they thought we were not fit enough , ’ added Walter . |
| 22 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 23 | Clough also revealed that he thought he had signed Welsh international striker Dean Saunders before his move to Liverpool — and admitted selling Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham may have been a mistake . |
| 24 | It had arrived quite quickly , and they had said that they thought she had a burst ulcer . |
| 25 | ‘ I was passing and I thought I 'd just pop in and see how you were . ’ |
| 26 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
| 27 | I 've always I 've always felt If I thought it was necessary then that 's the end of it er as far as I know . |
| 28 | How do those issues get decided and I thought there 's no sensible answer . |
| 29 | Well you should 've done cos I thought you were going to cos I thought yeah we 've got , have n't got anything to do this afternoon |
| 30 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |