Example sentences of "[adv] i thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although it was something to tell the others at school , secretly I thought he was important enough already . |
| 2 | That we could not condone , and Gill Davies insisted that I go over there [ to the interviews ] and make the point , which I did very forcibly I thought . |
| 3 | We sat in his lovely round room with all the books ( little I thought ! ) |
| 4 | Mostly I thought about going with my dad . |
| 5 | Oh right I thought that meant |
| 6 | The first twenty five minutes , when you think we were one nil up right I thought gosh if we could get that second goal it would have made all the difference and United would have been really would have been in trouble . |
| 7 | How bitterly I thought that night of the happiness I had left that morning ! |
| 8 | Eventually I thought the only way I could control what I was doing was to decide on one specific charity — I chose Muscular Dystrophy — and work just with them , which is what I did . |
| 9 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 10 | ‘ Argol , ’ cried Quigley , who was , rather gamely I thought , trying to make some radical alterations to his cosmological system . |
| 11 | Even better I thought to find a society that automatically lets its existing investors know when a better deal becomes available . |
| 12 | Suddenly I thought of Anne and felt impelled to rebel . |
| 13 | I looked around the coach , and suddenly I thought I understood the reason for the strange smell . |
| 14 | There again , it 's gon na be , it 's something like , that said it was forty four days and suddenly I thought , bugger that ! |
| 15 | Actually I was cos I I had the back door open and I thought I 'll just leave it and if he wants to come in he can and I poured him a a bit of a drink of milk and er , then I went in the kit , in the bathroom and the door was still open and then suddenly I thought God I wonder where he was ? |
| 16 | I I just could n't , I just thought , suddenly I thought my God , you know I can change this . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a long story , but basically I thought they 'd get on together . |
| 18 | Only I thought |
| 19 | Teague admitted : ‘ When I was pounding the hills alone I thought my England days were over . |
| 20 | I thought … perhaps I thought she was dead . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps I thought that if it was Billy 's kid , then somebody had to tell Lucy the bad news and if she was skipping probation , it had better not be the cops . |
| 22 | and er perhaps I thought it was infected and she said yeah animals , he 's got , I mean we 've caught it early , so |
| 23 | The judge who gave me bail had said that if I got into trouble that was it , I would n't get bail again , so obviously I thought , ‘ If I 'm going to go back , I 'll go for something worth going for . ’ |
| 24 | While it was ringing , Lisabeth appeared on the stairs and said , very pointedly I thought : ‘ You are logging all those calls in the book , are n't you ? ’ |
| 25 | Personally I thought it was a load of fucking cobblers and yet that was the swamp from which punk rock emerged . |
| 26 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 27 | Personally I thought this highly unlikely . |
| 28 | Personally I thought she was hostile and chippy . |
| 29 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 30 | Personally I thought it was just to draw attention to herself . ’ |