Example sentences of "[conj] i thought he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to rent a room for him in a house near ours , where I thought he would be safe for the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ He was still nice , or I thought he was . |
| 3 | I like the way that Rob McCaffrey 's commentary allows you time to enjoy the action , although I thought he could pay a little more attention to his scripting in places . |
| 4 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 9 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 10 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 11 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 12 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 13 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 14 | This morning he followed ‘ Hi ’ with ‘ How 's life treats you ? , ’ so I thought he must have learned more English while I was away . |
| 15 | But he did eat it , and I thought he would . |
| 16 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 17 | He grabbed my tie and I thought he was going to nut me in the face . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd written all these books about sex and I thought he 'd know all these exciting things and I 'd just be so ordinary . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I told you , Cal — he just tagged along , and I thought he 'd be good ammunition against Mum and Dad . ’ |
| 21 | He dodged behind a bus and I thought he 'd been knocked down . |
| 22 | The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us . |
| 23 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 24 | And I thought he was a nightmare or that I was going out of my mind . |
| 25 | I told her I was n't there , I 'd left , and I thought he 'd smash things up and my china cabinet would be the first . " |
| 26 | ‘ And I thought he was the one who killed her , too , ’ said William , ‘ when they finally told me . ’ |
| 27 | ( I read Matthew 's Sura 's piece last month and I thought he caught you bang to rights . ) |
| 28 | And I thought he was healthy . |
| 29 | His voice was muffled and I thought he was trembling . |
| 30 | He stared at me for a moment , and I thought he was going to be angry . |