Example sentences of "thought we [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll finally accept it , i the thing she is she got a green velvet suit from Ron and the lady said to her she said well will you be in Hello , i she said I thought we 'll be in Packaging News ! |
| 2 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
| 3 | The other evening , with the help of a lot of film , he put the spotlight on a very few areas of endeavour where he thought we might be actually going right . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we might be talking about hundreds and hundreds dead , ’ said holiday operator Mr Watts . |
| 5 | Or was she just telling us she 's having one because she thought we might be interested ? ’ |
| 6 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 7 | ‘ A number of people asked us if we could save the ponds and we thought we might be able to do more than that . |
| 8 | I thought we would be safe . ’ |
| 9 | I thought we would be lower mid-table in a comparatively comfortable position , but when you get 15 little things and you lump them together you get a better idea why we have n't done so well . |
| 10 | Carried ‘ I knew the police were firing tracer bullets but I thought we would be safe at the back . |
| 11 | Mandeville thought we would be satisfied with that . |
| 12 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
| 13 | I think he thought we should be alone together . ’ |
| 14 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 15 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 16 | Funny , we never thought we 'd be Sixth , did we ? |
| 17 | Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I never thought we 'd be able to keep her . |
| 19 | We 've always been outcasts and we never thought we 'd be accepted . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I thought we 'd be OK here until later in the morning , but the wind has shifted . ’ |
| 21 | Once we were at Arrancay together , I thought we 'd be able to talk it out — decide what was best for the future . |
| 22 | Well everybody thought we 'd be out for a week or so , but we were out for a month or er more when these scabs started going back . |
| 23 | We thought we 'd be here all night . ’ |
| 24 | Well we certainly saw it as a disadvantage , he thought we 'd be er very well off with it . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought we 'd be going by boat . ’ |
| 26 | I thought we 'd be too bollocksed by the time we get up there anyway . |
| 27 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 28 | So in other words is our F T E consistent with where we actually are rather than where we thought we 'd be erm or have we got erm you know er the Parkinson 's law , been operating with the , the overtime , people are used to doing it and therefore they keep doing it and so on . |
| 29 | I thought we 'd be literally snowed under here |