Example sentences of "i thought [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we could open them and have one with |
| 2 | ‘ I thought we could use it . ’ |
| 3 | but I persuaded him that it would melt while he had his drink and to put it in my bag and er it was lunchtime when we got home and we were going some I , I ca n't remember what we were doing afterwards so I gave it to his mother , I thought she could share it . |
| 4 | I thought you could take them back to that Wilko 's if they were no good , you know . |
| 5 | ‘ And I thought I could make mine by designing and making better products , and selling them to the world , ’ said Mark . |
| 6 | I thought I could make it on my own here , but I 'm not so certain now . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I could do it as an outsider , as an Englishman coming in , ’ Schlesinger claimed . |
| 8 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 9 | I thought I could do yours today , if you like . " |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I could handle it — but the very next day we 'd been sightseeing and returned to our suite and I looked into your eyes and felt myself drowning . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I could give you a lift , ’ Molland said . |
| 12 | We did n't know that , but I thought I could find her . |
| 13 | Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere . |
| 14 | I thought I could work you out of my system , Folly . |
| 15 | And it 's the same for the boy ; I thought I could keep him from it , but I see now I ca n't . |
| 16 | I thought I could help her spiritually , perhaps show her that she had a vocation too . |
| 17 | I thought I could help him to forget . |
| 18 | I thought I could call it erm a Spanish omelette . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought I could trust you , ’ she said accusingly . |
| 20 | When the draw was announced and I found that I was next to Carl Lewis I thought that it was just brilliant , because we run our races in a similar fashion and I thought he could drag me through . |
| 21 | Because I thought he could use me in his own way , and that would make me happy . |
| 22 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 23 | How I thought he could help me I do n't know , but he invited me for lunch , anyway , and he was lovely . |