Example sentences of "think that i knew " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’
2 I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect .
3 Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me .
4 I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two .
5 I remember thinking that I knew what painting was about at last . ’
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