Example sentences of "thought [pron] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
| 2 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 3 | I thought I had genuine friends at the Oval after six and a half years . |
| 4 | I thought I had other books ? |
| 5 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 6 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you had powerful friends too , ’ he said to Owen . |
| 8 | She made a lot of conventional noises , of course ; she had to because you ca n't have Rose and Grace getting any sillier than they are already and they might have taken it into their heads to copy you , but I could see she thought you had real spirit . |
| 9 | I thought you had more self-control . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you had more courage . ’ |
| 11 | It was obvious that they , too , had realised what a professional job it was , something reflected in their searching questions as to whether she thought she had any enemies . |
| 12 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
| 13 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
| 14 | Yes , yes , so would I , you know , right in the centre of the action , I thought we had brilliant seats . |
| 15 | ‘ But I thought we had all day to get to the school , ’ remarked Endill . |
| 16 | And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago |
| 17 | We thought we had enough expertise with our our in-house training , without having to go on a separate one thousand five hundred pounds project management course . |
| 18 | They 're around 30 , some victims thought they had foreign accents . |
| 19 | They 're around 30 , some victims thought they had foreign accents . |
| 20 | Well we thought they had last time we went . |
| 21 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 22 | Up to then I thought he had dark hair . |
| 23 | However , the tale seems to have followed him , because I gather some of his parishioners certainly thought he had deviant tendencies in spite of his having a wife and son . |
| 24 | Sorry , he 's just someone I went out with who thought he had exclusive rights to my body . ’ |
| 25 | Christina thought he had attractive Latin looks . |
| 26 | He sold his home to get on the grid … when no-one it seems except Nigel thought he had any talent … he roared into formula one with the old Lotus team … |
| 27 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
| 28 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |