Example sentences of "i thought he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretly , though I had every sympathy for Surkov , I thought him much more likely to have raped a woman when drunk than Miss Hayes-Drummond was to have made a false accusation . |
| 2 | My heart gave me an unforgettable jolt when I thought him to be headless ; yet there was no blood staining the fresh , even snow . |
| 3 | At first I thought him very plain , that is , for about three minutes : he is pale and thin , has a wide mouth , thick lips , and not very good teeth , longish loose-growing half-curling rough black hair . |
| 4 | I thought him very handsome when I was seven . |
| 5 | On the two occasions he came here , I thought him a charming youth . |
| 6 | But then — I thought him marvellous as far as I can remember . |
| 7 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 8 | The ambassador and his wife were very pleasant , and as the Ambassador stood up and made a very impressive speech in Chinese , I thought him a distinct improvement on his confrère in the Hague ! |
| 9 | But he did eat it , and I thought he would . |
| 10 | But , although it was something to tell the others at school , secretly I thought he was important enough already . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought he 'd reformed to be a daddy . |
| 12 | When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep . |
| 13 | I thought he would get it back together . ’ |
| 14 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 15 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 16 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 17 | Forget it , I said , For a moment I thought he was going to tell me to sling my hook . |
| 18 | I thought he was having us on exaggerating — because there were always people hanging out , trying to crash Malcolm 's scene . |
| 19 | ‘ When he did n't come , ’ she said , ‘ I thought He has n't made it , he has n't made Jack 's party . |
| 20 | That surprises me when he says that , cos I thought he knew who Mrs Seaton was . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought he looked familiar . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I thought he died in Chapter 8 ? ’ it might remark ; or ‘ You said the opposite in line 154 , ’ ‘ Is ‘ boxing ’ the day , the sport , or the packaging ? ’ and for real puzzles , ‘ Do you really mean that ? ’ or even ‘ Who he ? ’ or ‘ Shome mishtake shurely ? ’ |
| 23 | Not that I thought he understood the music that much , but it was the image of he people behind the music , because people like Charlie Mingus are quite characters . |
| 24 | I thought he was just going to do a couple of acoustic numbers . |
| 25 | I thought he was all right , but I did n't think he was all that powerful , although I do believe in chemistry and obviously the chemistry between him and Bowie was magic — undeniably magic . |
| 26 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought he was off drugs ? ’ |
| 29 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 30 | I thought he was — safe . ’ |