Example sentences of "and [pers pn] think i " in BNC.
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| 1 | And me thinking I was hiding them ! |
| 2 | ‘ And I thought I could make mine by designing and making better products , and selling them to the world , ’ said Mark . |
| 3 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |
| 4 | She was walking her dog past the house just now and I thought I might bring her in . |
| 5 | He flicked his hand and I thought I saw a few spots of red appear on the shiny white tile beside me . |
| 6 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 7 | Then she slumped back in her chair , mouthing the nicotine-dosed chewing gum she used instead of cigarettes , and I thought I must have imagined an intensity of which she was surely incapable . |
| 8 | I was floating overhead — I was n't visible to the daleks and I thought I should come down and see what the Awful Warning was . |
| 9 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 10 | I 'm just about to go to bed and I thought I 'd ring and see how things are with you . ’ |
| 11 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 12 | My husband wandered off to do his own thing , and I thought I 'd see what Koi and Goldfish were on offer outdoors . |
| 13 | And I thought I was knackered ! |
| 14 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 15 | We married 18 months later and I thought I knew him fairly well . |
| 16 | Then , last year , my husband took it up and I thought I 'd have another go .. |
| 17 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 18 | He went into a cubicle and I thought I should follow him but he pushed me away , locked the door and left me standing outside . |
| 19 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 20 | ‘ We play in the same position and I thought I 'd proved myself last season . |
| 21 | ‘ Everything went well in the warm-up and I thought I just had to lob it out to qualify . |
| 22 | We went to this very flash restaurant and I was really nervous , you know the feeling — anyway blood was rushing , and I was looking at the menu — my French is pretty good — and I thought I 'd fancy a pork cutlet . |
| 23 | Me own stuff was all ragged and I thought I might as well nick something decent , it 'elps a girl , knowing she 's dressed decent . ’ |
| 24 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 25 | I first started to think about painting about ten years ago when my two children married and left home and I thought I 'd ‘ do ’ something at the local adult education centre . |
| 26 | And I thought I was enjoying it . ’ |
| 27 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 28 | I did n't tell you about this monster because I was afraid you would kill him and I thought I could handle the matter . |
| 29 | " Oh , I 've some studying to do , and I thought I 'd get it in now while the house is still quiet . " |
| 30 | actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone |