Example sentences of "i thought [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought were a little bit uptight . |
| 2 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 3 | I got there at what I thought was a reasonable hour , around midday . |
| 4 | I was trying my best to correct his style without imposing my own upon it , and he seemed genuinely grateful when I pointed out what I thought was a weakness in rhythm , a word to be changed , an image to be further developed , a form to be tightened or relaxed … . |
| 5 | The next morning the newspapers headlined what I thought was a completely different ‘ anti-Europe ’ speech . |
| 6 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 7 | They played in here and slagged the place off which I thought was a bit pathetic but I do n't pretend that I like all their ideas . |
| 8 | I had tried three of them , swallowing the small amounts in the glass with what I thought was a superbly noncommittal expression when I discovered that in the middle of the room were two iron spittoons , waist-high . |
| 9 | It was much darker under the trees now and , afraid of not reaching the village before nightfall , I branched off on to what I thought was a short-cut . |
| 10 | ‘ I had worked out what I thought was a good routine for him and had his personal stunt man run through the scene for him , ’ said Cannutt . |
| 11 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 12 | They put me in touch with a Fellow of the Institute by the name of John Read — same name as the pilot of DZ642 , which I thought was a good omen . |
| 13 | I later phoned the course and obtained a thorough briefing — or what I thought was a thorough briefing — on the available runway . |
| 14 | Churchill had a great time in leading for the Opposition and made what I thought was a splendid speech — but then he usually did . |
| 15 | I ended up in one of the rooms in the roof and the man I thought was a friend grabbed hold of me and started masturbating me . |
| 16 | I I thought was a . |
| 17 | People were on the streets being senselessly violent to the police , which I thought was a good thing at the time . |
| 18 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) delivered what I thought was a curiously muddled speech . |
| 19 | Fishing 5lb line to a 3lb hook length I dragged in what I thought was a good chub , it turned out to be a 1 ½lb barbel ! |
| 20 | PRI political secretary Giorgio La Malfa claimed that he had been misled over the Cabinet posts by Andreotti " who I thought was a man of quality " . |
| 21 | There was about fifty percent full the house of Commons was about fifty percent full which I thought was a little worrying . |
| 22 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 23 | The first bit of ‘ fighting ’ was after Wallace was brought down in the area for what I thought was a definate penalty . |
| 24 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 25 | Well I thought was a very decent man , even if I killed him . |
| 26 | There was erm what I thought was a , a white Rolls parked outside our house when I was putting the washing on the line just after you went to work . |
| 27 | Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . |
| 28 | so that I thought was a nice tale |
| 29 | which I thought was a bit over the top , they said that , you know , where you have pretend foods , you should really have like |
| 30 | and we put a little sex appeal into it and turn it into what I thought was a very contemporary , viable and graphic arts piece that would be very broadly hung on the wall and used . |