Example sentences of "think i had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I was quite embarrassed by her arrival as I was aware that listeners might think I had invited her . |
| 2 | They were as welcoming as ever ; a little surprised because they had thought I had forsaken them . |
| 3 | ( I learned later that she had thought I had put her into some kind of charitable institution — a sort of workhouse . |
| 4 | You may have thought I had thrown them away , or merely , forgotten about them , and I was entitled to do either , since you explicitly said I was to do exactly whit I liked with them , that you washed your hands of them completely . |
| 5 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 6 | Said Wright : ‘ I thought I had done it . |
| 7 | Cos I thought I had done it . |
| 8 | Much later , searching my memory , I thought I had heard it say in deep and melancholy tones , ‘ Here , fellow outcast from society , if thou canst survive this night , draw strength from one who did not ! ’ |
| 9 | If I look so bad it 's because I thought I had lost you . |
| 10 | I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " . |
| 11 | I thought I had seen it in a Met report , some time back . |
| 12 | I thought I had sung her to sleep . |
| 13 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 14 | Can you imagine , you know a teacher , I thought I had to tell them every minute detail of these plans . |
| 15 | I never meant it to happen , and I never meant to hurt you , Helen , honestly I did n't but it just kind of happened to me , and I thought I had to tell you , because I did n't want to … to cheat you and so on and I 'm really very fond of you , and I 'm sorry . |
| 16 | I thought I had put him off rather neatly four years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ I pulled my head up , feeling confused but amazed that I was still alive because when I saw the lorry coming towards me I honestly thought I had had it . |
| 18 | I think I had to kill her … ’ |
| 19 | But I think I had imagined it would it would allow , if it was wanted , it would allow I eleven to be overridden it would be one of the things it would be an exception to . |