Example sentences of "i [adv] thought [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hesitated a minute , or perhaps I only thought she did . |
| 2 | and I suddenly , I suddenly thought I said your father is n't Terry by any chance ? |
| 3 | No I just thought they looked a bit short that was all if you were |
| 4 | I just thought it looked like him . |
| 5 | I just thought it followed on the next page there |
| 6 | Before we got married I just thought I had I 'd never had my legs shaved er , waxed before . |
| 7 | ‘ I had a feeling that you might say that , but I just thought I 'd better check it out . |
| 8 | Ah , ah , I just thought I 'd better explain to everyone , sorry . |
| 9 | Okay erm I 've got , I just thought I 'd , might just let you know that the , the end result figure that , that , on the recruitment front , they reckon they 'll be at twenty three hundred by the end of the year . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 11 | I — I somehow thought you had n't any , like me , you know . ’ |
| 12 | I always thought everybody loved me ! |
| 13 | After , after the years of hardship and loss and then ev everything came as a relief , course we were still at war with the Japanese and people were still in Burma , our soldiers were still in Burma fighting the Japanese , but having said that the main issue was over and it was n't long after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb and of course , I always thought they had to really or else the Japanese would still be fighting now the er they had special dances in the Town Hall for the V E Day and the Americans who did a a jitterbug contest and er I always remember my friend and his sister , who was English , they actually won it against the Yanks he er |
| 14 | ‘ I always thought they lost that one . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I always thought you went along Kinghorn Ness and found the body below you and then had it raised by ropes . ’ |
| 16 | I always thought he fancied himself as a bit like a character in a war film , The Dambusters , Bomber Harris maybe . |
| 17 | I always thought I knew more , felt more , understood more . |
| 18 | I always thought I had a good appetite , but I remember being at a college feast once at Cambridge , where they had seven or eight courses and the elderly dons seemed to have less trouble than anyone else getting through it . |
| 19 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 20 | When I was younger , I always thought it looked like money for jam . |
| 21 | When I was younger , I always thought it looked like money for jam . |
| 22 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 23 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 24 | D McIntyre Funny , I always thought she looked a little bit like Blues official DESSIE Moore … could they be related ? |
| 25 | Her round bilge construction and narrow beam made her pitch and roll excessively , I always thought she had a bad feel about her . |
| 26 | I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it . |
| 27 | I also thought I had fallen in love with a music-teacher . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | I honestly thought she loved me so much that she 'd been prepared to get herself pregnant to trick me into marriage . |
| 30 | I really thought we 'd blown it when I saw him cracking up . |