Example sentences of "thought [pron] [vb mod] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I would just get in and catch the end but it was over in minutes . |
| 2 | It 's funny , Lucy was n't exactly planned , I think I thought I would never get pregnant . |
| 3 | I did put my shoes on cos I thought I sha n't get them on in a minute because my feet swell when I sit down . |
| 4 | Gloria Estefan at the moment , so I thought I 'd just get him the got a couple of records LP 's or whatever you call them now . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I 'd never get home . ’ |
| 6 | I thought I 'd never get out . |
| 7 | I was then granted unconditional bail , in spite of the fact that the magistrates knew all about the cocaine , which was one of the reasons I thought I 'd never get a sentence . |
| 8 | ‘ I loved Tony and there was a time when I thought I 'd never get over him . |
| 9 | When I first went , I thought I 'd only get them for a couple of weeks at the most . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you 'd never get here , ’ Moran said . |
| 11 | ‘ Thought you 'd never get here . ’ |
| 12 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 13 | She had been on the run since her conversation with Jack , a steady stream of nasty fractures and frightened children and anxious parents , and then , shortly after two , just when things began to settle down and she thought she might actually get some lunch , a car screeched up into the entrance and a man jumped out , flung open the back of the car and half dragged , half carried a woman towards the doors . |
| 14 | I imagined you let her go away with Steve because you … you thought she would finally get him out of her system , and you did say that you were certain she would return as you had something precious that Steve had n't got . |
| 15 | Suppose she thought she could probably get them to school , but ca n't bring them home . |
| 16 | It was not a meeting she was looking forward to , but Celia thought she could hardly get out of it . |
| 17 | She thought she 'd only get commended or highly commended . |
| 18 | ‘ When I heard City had lost again on Saturday I thought we would not get him — I just know how I would feel . |
| 19 | We never fought when we were engaged , and I thought we 'd just get married and have our own little home , I thought the bills would get paid and we 'd be closer than we were before . |
| 20 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 21 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 22 | Seeing that Hilary was n't taking it in , he added , ‘ Ryan and his partner thought they 'd easily get planning permission to build an estate on the land where your cottage stood . |
| 23 | Just when I thought it could n't get any better the Turkish police steamed in a chinned Big Nose and Bryan ‘ As I say ’ Knobson . |
| 24 | We thought he would just get like a , a community service |
| 25 | I thought he 'd never get the band off the road . |