Example sentences of "[pers pn] thought be " in BNC.
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| 31 | I began walking towards what I thought was the town . |
| 32 | 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 … . |
| 33 | I was astonished , and a little dismayed , by the ease with which Dana entered into the spirit of things , giving Indian war-whoops and clowning and laughing in a way I thought was rather contemptible . |
| 34 | The next morning the newspapers headlined what I thought was a completely different ‘ anti-Europe ’ speech . |
| 35 | ‘ I rang what I thought was the doorbell once and nearly cut this geezer 's Mercedes in half with his up-and-over . ’ |
| 36 | Afterwards he simply said : ‘ It was my biggest achievement yet and I was not at all disappointed as I did something that I thought was beyond me . |
| 37 | 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 ? |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I remember seeing his ball disappear into what I thought was sand dunes left , but he 'd hit a woman on the head and nearly killed her , and his ball had flown back 60 or 70 yards into the fairway . |
| 40 | I turned around to see Mr Lu playing what I thought was his third shot . |
| 41 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | I was just so frustrated by what I thought was Frank 's intransigence . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I did what I thought was right for the most precious thing in the world to me . |
| 46 | ‘ That 's precisely what I thought was interesting . ’ |
| 47 | Cameron , impressed but evidently rather baffled , minuted that he approved of the proposals and found them ‘ entirely in accord with what we wanted and what I thought was being practised ’ . |
| 48 | They get on fine , which I thought was against all the rules . |
| 49 | ‘ The reason I agreed to do the film was because of the script and the potential that I thought was there . |
| 50 | Even people who managed to stay married seemed to do it only by making incredible compromises which I thought was contemptible . ’ |
| 51 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 52 | ‘ 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | ‘ The first thing I thought was , ‘ Boy , am I fat . ’ ’ |
| 55 | And actually , one day , because she knew it was my favourite , she said that I could have permission to have it copied and gave me the name of the jeweller , which I thought was so sweet . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | ‘ What I thought was , right , they 've got a rank in Ilford , ai n't they ? |
| 58 | In one store the manager tried to sell me what I thought was obsolete software . |
| 59 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 60 | Well , what I thought was with this one world week thing at least people that , who go might be more receptive to what we have to say to show and sell . |