Example sentences of "thought [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought , I thought someone had been smoking in the toilets . |
| 2 | He thought I had been economical with the truth . |
| 3 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 4 | She was n't too pleased , as she thought I had been coarsened by the whole experience , which was true . |
| 5 | My family thought I had been studying too hard . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 8 | At first I thought I had been pushed too wide . |
| 9 | Oh I thought you had been . |
| 10 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 11 | Until then , colleagues and readers thought she had been happily married to the man she always referred affectionately to as Proopsie . |
| 12 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 13 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 14 | She caught her breath , a strange little movement in her face betraying the fact that she thought she had been tricked by him . |
| 15 | Linda Hardy , ( 43 ) — who was so badly beaten that police initially thought she had been shot — was this morning said to be ‘ critical but stable ’ in London 's Royal Free Hospital , which has a neurosurgical unit specialising in treating severe head injuries . |
| 16 | She thought she had been sympathetic to him , but , in the pain of love herself , could she have been kinder ? |
| 17 | Coun Skinner said : ‘ We thought everything had been resolved but this could mean we have to discuss the speed restrictions again . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought we had been hit in the starboard wing ’ , said the pilot F/O M G Johnson , of Geelong , Victoria , Australia . |
| 19 | We thought we had been someone/something |
| 20 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
| 21 | But if they thought there had been a miscarriage of justice Dr Courtney would come under new scrutiny . |
| 22 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 23 | They used courts for private cases : divorced wives whose maintenance had not been paid , and heirs who thought they had been cheated , appear in the earliest court records ; they were plaintiffs and claimants whose position was weak in the traditional system . |
| 24 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 25 | He did n't really care if she and Nick were happy or not but if he thought they had been happier at Druid 's Bottom than they were at his house , he might stop them going again . |
| 26 | He thought they had been carved by people living in the tombs , perhaps the monks , who dreamed fine dreams of other places , who longed for new horizons . |
| 27 | Edging round the bunched-together desks she checked Holly 's and Rosie 's and thought they had been tampered with too . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought it had been adjourned . ’ |
| 29 | A Free French administration was installed in Beirut and General de Gaulle quickly made it clear that he intended to keep his forces in Lebanon however much independence the country thought it had been given . |
| 30 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |