Example sentences of "thought it [be] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 2 | The February 1974 election turned out to be close , but few thought it was going to be close at the time . |
| 3 | I thought it was going to be worse than it was . |
| 4 | I really thought it was going to be sort of ‘ You must not drink ever again' and ‘ You naughty boy , you must n't do it ever again' sort of thing . |
| 5 | Eric Brown then went and did that in the third round , but at that stage I thought it was going to be between Peter , Christy and Dave . |
| 6 | He was our biggest danger in the end , although I thought it was going to be Tom 's four-ball partner Bert Yancey who might prove the biggest threat . |
| 7 | Retirement was n't as good an idea as he thought it was going to be . |
| 8 | I thought it was going to be marvellous . |
| 9 | Monie said : ‘ I thought it was going to be a nice , smooth change-over with Steve ready to take Joe 's place . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But all in all I suppose it was n't as bad as I thought it was going to be , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I thought it was going to be easy . |
| 12 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 13 | For a moment , Preston thought it was going to be all right . |
| 14 | The target moved from where the beams thought it was going to be . |
| 15 | I thought it was going to be a holiday home , but my husband had different ideas . ’ |
| 16 | But whether they thought it was going to be too hard work , and , and it certainly was very hard work . |
| 17 | As she slowly started to unpack and get ready for bed , she thought it was going to be amusing to see his face when he found out exactly who she was tomorrow . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought it was going to be first come , first served . ’ |
| 19 | I thought it was going to be Peter to pick me up . |
| 20 | At first Juliet thought it was going to be fun . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Ven replied , and taking a long pull of breath , ‘ I do n't seem to be doing this very well , ’ he stated , ‘ but at least we 're talking — which makes it less difficult than I thought it was going to be . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 23 | I thought it was going to be one of those horrific accidents but it does n't seem like it now because he was brutally injured . ’ |
| 24 | I thought it was going to be , yes yes . |
| 25 | I thought it was going to be a magazine ? |
| 26 | I said , she 's alright , but it was n't the ordeal that she thought it was going to be . |
| 27 | Not as cold not as cold yet as I thought it was going to be . |
| 28 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 29 | Cos people sitting here thinking oh I thought it was gon na be a lot of fun this , it 's quite difficult now . |
| 30 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |