Example sentences of "i thought [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I thought is , I 'd like to meet you and we could have a chat and so on , ’ she intoned nervously . |
| 2 | I 'll suggest that I thought is fucking crazy , you know |
| 3 | But then I thought actually all this adds up to what you want is someone you feel safe with , someone you feel is going to look after the country and its people well , and I thought is Major somebody I feel safe with , and I thought well in some ways because I do n't think he 's going to turn round and do anything nasty to me , but on the other hand erm I wonder — I 'm going back to your question — is he a man of substance ? |
| 4 | I turned up dressed in what I thought were my best clothes — a corduroy suit from Take Six with Oxford bags à la Trevor Eve in Shabby Tiger which was on TV at the time Both of which were quite cool things to wear then . |
| 5 | When David did things that I thought were stupid , or when he did n't turn up , or he 'd turn up ‘ high ’ , I told him I thought he was stupid . |
| 6 | Based on what I thought were proper symptoms , Puls. was given but with only temporary relief , and slight lowering of the blood pressure . |
| 7 | I had acted out of good faith and in terms of what I thought were the best interests of my client . |
| 8 | There were others whom I liked , that I thought were particularly honest and whose opinions I respected . |
| 9 | As the deputy head commented rather ruefully : I 'm not sure what I thought were study skills was what they thought were study skills . |
| 10 | That was the true black humour of colleagues I thought were my mates . |
| 11 | ‘ I am surrounded by selfish bastards I thought were my friends , ’ I say , slapping my forehead with the hand holding the J and almost setting my hair alight . |
| 12 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 13 | Terry er sorry Roger if , if I were interviewing for posts , I would appoint , and you know full well I would , the people that I thought were best for that job . |
| 14 | So you know there were erm lots of little things like that erm in the layout of the flats which I thought were n't er well they just were n't practical . |
| 15 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 16 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman 's response to the Budget is as empty as that of his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition , whose comments yesterday , I thought were proof positive that the Michelangelo virus was alive and operating inside the Labour party . |
| 18 | We , we , I thought were all saying that we felt that these reductions were actually unacceptable , or totally un almost unacceptable . |
| 19 | Well a thing called power handshakes , which I thought were the biggest load of gobbledegook until I watched them , a specific chat show host . |
| 20 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 21 | Oh that I thought were very |
| 22 | I thought were a little bit uptight . |
| 23 | Getting taken to the doctors and getting needles stuck in you erm things like um being fed cod liver oil , things like being hit for doing things which I thought were quite legitimate like pruning my mother 's geraniums and stuff like that . |
| 24 | Some of those pieces out of those U two singles I thought were brilliant ! |
| 25 | And , a all these things I thought were so difficult ! |
| 26 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 27 | I got there at what I thought was a reasonable hour , around midday . |
| 28 | ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |