Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] i thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 2 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 3 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 4 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 5 | Indeed the covenant is important but it is Christ who holds the key to the understanding of baptism and I thought that you would like to hear how your work has helped us to see our way in this respect . |
| 6 | Once you get out of car and I thought it was a dog that she had , bu did n't have , she did n't have a dachshund he had a little |
| 7 | Long fingering of manuscript and I thought the fingering . |
| 8 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 9 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 10 | The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 12 | AM : I remember reading that the Carroll camp let out a shriek of despair and I thought , that 's got to be Colbert . |
| 13 | Presently , there was a lightening of foliage and I thought , almost disappointedly , all that panic for nothing . |
| 14 | I was , I was in the loo and erm they were , they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they 've got a club book , I did n't think any more of it , and when I came out they got , both of them out of the boxes . |
| 15 | ‘ There is an element of frustration because I thought ‘ Bizarro ’ was great . |
| 16 | There was no sign of Cawthorne and I thought I 'd come too far . |
| 17 | Though these measures are not due to necessity , as the people here are glad to be of service to us and treat us with courtesy in which not a little deference is admixed , for as I say they count many simple things great wonders : my fine paste shoe buckles ( the only part remaining after some native rats that are very large and like to be tame devoured the rest of the appurtenances ) inspired much clicking of teeth and clucking of tongues till I thought I should have to part with them . |
| 18 | The shelves are full of wonderful food at this time of year and I thought of how I could binge and throw up all day long . |
| 19 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |
| 20 | I sent him a bundle of clippings that I thought amply documented my charge . |
| 21 | One can not just dig it out of language as I thought once . ’ |
| 22 | I had a mouthful of coffee and I thought that she farting |
| 23 | ‘ I see you know more about voodoo than I thought , ’ he said . |
| 24 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 25 | But they used to ask me for things but I thought there were enough s erm shops here really . |
| 26 | I remember being terrified of going into Harrods because I thought King Herod lived there , and that I would n't come out in one piece . |
| 27 | But then when I got glasses suddenly the whole world came into focus and I thought , ‘ So that 's what it 's all about , is it ? ’ |
| 28 | It has made me question every aspect of my teaching , including things that I thought I was doing well ! |
| 29 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 30 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |