Example sentences of "thought [pron] [modal v] do it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I might do it like that . |
| 2 | I thought I would do it alone , but now I 've met you again I 've changed it a bit . ’ |
| 3 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 4 | Of course , Billy 's answer was ‘ certainly ’ , 'cos he obviously never thought I 'd do it . ’ |
| 5 | She said , ‘ I never thought I 'd do it . |
| 6 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I could do it as an outsider , as an Englishman coming in , ’ Schlesinger claimed . |
| 8 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 9 | I thought you 'd do it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought she 'd do it bit by bit in detail , but she does n't . |
| 11 | to do Aladdin so when she thought she 'd do it this year she wanted me for Aladdin . |
| 12 | I thought we 'd do it in the fresh air rather than in the car , cos it just means |
| 13 | Story of four people this is a story of four people named everybody , somebody , anybody and nobody , there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure that somebody could do it , anybody could of done it , but nobody did , somebody got angry about that because it was everybody 's job , everybody thought anybody could do it , but nobody would . |
| 14 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 15 | The concept 's so simple and and the country 's littered with people who thought they could do it as well as us . |
| 16 | He thought he could do it . |
| 17 | Cos you thought he could do it , you were wrong . |