Example sentences of "[Wh det] i thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twelve years in management , I have n't yet had a tape arrive which I thought I could do anything with . |
| 2 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |
| 3 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 4 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 5 | I had twenty-four kronor of Swedish money , which I thought a handsome sum , but it proved sufficient to buy only one hopelessly modest open sandwich , like the bottom half of a hamburger bun with a menopausal piece of lettuce and eight marble-sized meatballs on top . |
| 6 | Plummer , a bank manager in Camborne , commented : ‘ All sorts of arrangements have had to be made , which I thought would be difficult . |
| 7 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On Monday evenings , at the end of wash-day , which I thought when small was always the worst day of the week , this would be rolled ( it was on castors ) to the centre of the room . |
| 10 | My topic was press coverage of the IQ controversy , which I thought distorted to the point of newsworthiness . |
| 11 | They get on fine , which I thought was against all the rules . |
| 12 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 13 | Even people who managed to stay married seemed to do it only by making incredible compromises which I thought was contemptible . ’ |
| 14 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Last week I saw you in Suddenly Last Summer in which I thought you were incredible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It was then I decided to find a product which I thought was marketable and start marketing it , ’ he said . |
| 19 | After some weeks of work in London gathering material from such places as the Canary Wharf Tower , Millbank Tower and the roof of the Economist Building , I eventually spotted a tower block across the Thames from the City which I thought must have an amazing vantage point . |
| 20 | I assessed six factors which I thought would help determine whether patients had actually had asthma and whether their death had been caused by asthma . |
| 21 | The engine only produces thirty-two horse power , which I thought might be a problem in performance terms but , for this unique aircraft , it does not prove to be so . |
| 22 | Stuart said he 'd given Oliver some money , which I thought was quite unnecessary , not that I said so . |
| 23 | Because the trouble is , I can go back to nineteen sixty four , Industrial Relations Act , which I thought was one of the best things ever bought out , whereby er the erm terms were levied to do so much training . |
| 24 | Sara Maitland says : ‘ I could say something which I thought was warm and friendly , but which might be regarded by the voters of Milwaukee as offensive . ’ |
| 25 | I was really rather taken with two or three of these , and seriously tempted by Hotwire , which I thought close to being fully achieved . |
| 26 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 27 | until yo you 're actually gon na do it , sort of thing which I thought it was interesting . |
| 28 | And you 'd actually spotted it already which I thought was brilliant except we do need to have the |
| 29 | I pushed open the door of the old house , which I thought was uninhabited , but to my surprise there was a bed , a table and a candle inside . |
| 30 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |