Example sentences of "thought i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I heard shouting . ’ |
| 2 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |
| 3 | Maybe what I thought I saw happen to them both did n't really happen at all . ’ |
| 4 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 5 | ‘ I had just left training school and really thought I had landed on my feet . |
| 6 | With the enthusiasm of a boy I thought I had stumbled across one of the great masterpieces of English writing . |
| 7 | ‘ And you thought I had broken her heart ? ’ he said softly . |
| 8 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 9 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I had made that clear , ’ said Wheeler with no attempt at all to disguise his contempt for the Archdeacon . |
| 11 | I thought I had become used to being alone , and to the idea that I would always be alone , but I was wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ I really thought I had done enough after being recalled against Pakistan . ’ |
| 13 | Said Wright : ‘ I thought I had done it . |
| 14 | Thought I had done . |
| 15 | Cos I thought I had done it . |
| 16 | For a flicker of a moment as the policeman looked up at me I thought I had struck a wall again , but then the door opened . |
| 17 | Lord above , I thought I had endured the worst of insults already this day ! |
| 18 | For a moment I thought I had gone too far . |
| 19 | She thought I had gone . |
| 20 | Much later , searching my memory , I thought I had heard it say in deep and melancholy tones , ‘ Here , fellow outcast from society , if thou canst survive this night , draw strength from one who did not ! ’ |
| 21 | She thought I had inherited all Miss Lockwood 's property . |
| 22 | Marlies thought I had fallen off a ladder fixing a letter G from the conference slogan of that year , ‘ Britain Winning Through ’ . |
| 23 | I also thought I had fallen in love with a music-teacher . |
| 24 | I thought I had missed the fish and cried out in pain . |
| 25 | I resigned myself to becoming a brilliant restaurant manager because I thought I had missed my chance of becoming a chef . |
| 26 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 27 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 28 | ‘ For one moment I thought I had discovered a hidden adventurous streak , Caroline . |
| 29 | Even though I thought the job was really mine I thought I had to create the impression of somebody who was , you know , above board , for , you know , the Catholics . |
| 30 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |