Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] thought [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see , I 'd just thought you 'd might like to go . |
| 2 | I 'd always thought I 'd like to work in an old people 's home . |
| 3 | I 'd always thought it would be embarrassing to have a man undress you , especially the suspenders which are so ugly and comic , but I helped , and except for the girdle which must be the most resistant , unromantic garment since the chastity belt , it was all easy and delightful . |
| 4 | Nothing happened — not that she 'd really thought anything would — although there was a nervous tingle in her fingers . |
| 5 | I want … wanted it all or , in the end , I found I wanted nothing , although I 'd originally thought I could be satisfied with something . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 7 | I 'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral ; I 'd imagined cops slinking through the undergrowth , whispering into radios , gradually closing in . |
| 8 | And I had foolishly thought it would be the easiest fee I 'd ever earned . |
| 9 | It was only a faint smile , glimmering , but more than Ruth had ever thought she 'd see from Fand . |
| 10 | She had initially thought he might have come to reclaim the Madam 's brothel — in which case he was going to have a mysterious and fatal accident . |
| 11 | At first he had seriously thought she might be play-acting . |
| 12 | Problems had eased between them when Lori had left home to make her career in modelling , and Paige had actually thought they would end completely when Lori had married a wealthy American and gone to live in the States . |
| 13 | No longer the much cosseted bearer of Robert 's son ( he had never thought it would not be a boy ) , a being set apart : real life suspended until it should all be over . |
| 14 | In his wildest nightmares he had never thought it would come to this . |
| 15 | She behaved as she had never thought it would be possible for her to behave . |
| 16 | She had never thought she would see Alain . |
| 17 | Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people . |
| 18 | I remember trying to help one of the sisters dress a badly wounded back — something I had never thought I could do . |
| 19 | He had never thought he could share his life with anyone . |