Example sentences of "thought he [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he 's going to sleep again . |
| 2 | Ignorantly , I thought he was referring to the great Catholic/Protestant divide . |
| 3 | I suppose he thought he was talking to Sally . |
| 4 | He grabbed my tie and I thought he was going to nut me in the face . |
| 5 | For one terrible moment he thought he was going to be dismissed . |
| 6 | She 'd cried because she thought he was going to be hit . |
| 7 | ‘ But I thought he was going to Alexandria . ’ |
| 8 | Twice they had to stop because Richard thought he was going to be sick . |
| 9 | Gays thought he was going to be their president ; but so did blue-collar Catholic heterosexuals . |
| 10 | Bosnian Muslims thought he was going to be their president ; but so did those who want America to disavow meddling overseas . |
| 11 | Trade unions thought he was going to be their president ; but so did those businessmen who want a free-trade agreement with Mexico . |
| 12 | Jasper laughed until he thought he was going to be sick . |
| 13 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 14 | He stared at me for a moment , and I thought he was going to be angry . |
| 15 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 16 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 17 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
| 18 | He said if I thought he was going to be the Hindu Salman Rushdie , I was mistaken : he saw himself more as a Hindu P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 19 | Zen thought he was going to be shown some decisive new piece of evidence , but Bartocci simply reached through the space left vacant on the shelf and with a grunt of effort manipulated a lever . |
| 20 | I thought it was just something people said , but he actually went green and I thought he was going to be sick . |
| 21 | ‘ The policeman saw the car coming straight towards him , and thought he was going to be hit , and had to pull in to the side of the road . |
| 22 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
| 23 | Yes we thought he was going to somewhere else at six o'clock |