Example sentences of "what i thought " in BNC.

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1 Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches .
2 At the time I did n't believe him because I was n't used to hearing the truth from people 's lips , preferring to believe what I thought rather than what I heard .
3 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 .
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 He put it all into practice with The Clash When he got Joe Strummer into The Clash he asked me what I thought of him .
6 Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought .
7 How the fuck are you supposed to run for a bus in this was what I thought — a bit more down-to-earth than Malcolm and Vivienne .
8 I got there at what I thought was a reasonable hour , around midday .
9 ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best .
10 I began walking towards what I thought was the town .
11 Well , then how do you explain the night I put down a copy of Viz , turned on the telly , and settled in for what I thought would be a programme of smart , irreverent comedy ?
12 I was trying my best to correct his style without imposing my own upon it , and he seemed genuinely grateful when I pointed out what I thought was a weakness in rhythm , a word to be changed , an image to be further developed , a form to be tightened or relaxed … .
13 What I thought — well , if you 're agreeable , if it 'd be of help — between now and August , I could make a model of St Paul 's Cathedral .
14 ‘ That 's what I thought .
15 I would never try on something revealing like a swimming costume in a communal changing room , because when I was bigger I 'd be thinking everyone would be looking at the bulgy bits thinking how fat I was ( well , this is what I thought after I found out what my friends had been saying ) , and now I would feel too self-conscious because other girls would be thinking how skinny I look .
16 The next morning the newspapers headlined what I thought was a completely different ‘ anti-Europe ’ speech .
17 Within the confines of lunch , I did my best to formulate what I thought .
18 ‘ I rang what I thought was the doorbell once and nearly cut this geezer 's Mercedes in half with his up-and-over . ’
19 Based on what I thought were proper symptoms , Puls. was given but with only temporary relief , and slight lowering of the blood pressure .
20 ‘ That 's what I thought , ’ Susan said .
21 ‘ That 's what I thought
22 I do n't know what I thought !
23 ‘ This is not at all what I thought , ’ he complained .
24 The Smiths have this superstar aura about them now which is certainly not what I thought they would grow into .
25 I remember seeing his ball disappear into what I thought was sand dunes left , but he 'd hit a woman on the head and nearly killed her , and his ball had flown back 60 or 70 yards into the fairway .
26 I turned around to see Mr Lu playing what I thought was his third shot .
27 Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was .
28 He listened to me as to what I thought might be a reasonable way to go about it .
29 Callahan 's speciality was what I thought of as the ‘ establishing shot ’ : the picture that put everything into context .
30 A lot of them concerned the Arsenal team and what I thought about them . ’
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