Example sentences of "[noun sg] i thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a midwife I thought I knew how to communicate with mothers , but my skills with deaf women were abysmal , ’ she says |
| 2 | When I set out to write this story I thought that it would primarily show how scientists come up with ideas , design a strategy to test them , carry out the experiments , share experiences and attempt to replicate claimed discoveries , thereby establishing new natural phenomena . |
| 3 | You probably all knew this … but just in case I thought I 'd let you know . |
| 4 | With my accent I thought I 'd be smashed to pieces or fucked in half after five minutes in here . |
| 5 | In fact , with my spartan diet and my gentleman 's bag which could accommodate only the tiniest of souvenirs ( a freedom I thought , compared to others ' great domed rucksacks ) , I began to feel like some travelling ascetic , roaming through ‘ the vast cinema of sensation . ’ |
| 6 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 7 | For an instant I thought I saw his face behind the mask — it was only an instant and then it was gone , but I nearly fainted . |
| 8 | For a fraction of an instant I thought I had ceased to exist myself . |
| 9 | So for a change I thought someone should write in for the fans . |
| 10 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 11 | started school I thought it was gon na be a bit I thought I would n't like it there but when I got there , I did like it mum . |
| 12 | Mum I thought |
| 13 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 14 | They actually own the one on the side of the Conservative building I thought . |
| 15 | Once I reached the ski-road I thought I was ‘ home and dry ’ , until turning a bend I was confronted by a bull . |
| 16 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 17 | For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career . |
| 18 | Oh shit I thought that was a two . |
| 19 | Yes , of course I thought he was an interfering shit . |
| 20 | Just my luck I thought . |
| 21 | When they were lowering my father 's coffin into his grave I thought to myself ‘ It 's all over ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ All that money I thought he was spending on you , he was spending on drugs . |
| 23 | And I was er doing my part I thought to change the world and get everybody into the union so we could get , get better conditions for , for everybody and all this , more money anyhow . |
| 24 | Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere . |
| 25 | The first time i spotted a puffin I thought I was seeing things . |
| 26 | At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat . |
| 27 | When you flashed the Repo Man card I thought we 'd been infiltrated . |
| 28 | From my attic bedroom I thought I surveyed the world . |
| 29 | Do you know , when I went , last one , with the club I thought I 'm not going again ! |
| 30 | ‘ Also , with Chernobyl still fresh in everyone 's mind I thought it might be a good idea to show that workers in the nuclear industry are just like the rest of us . |