Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i thought [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 3 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 4 | she told them that , that 's mine , she told them that I did n't think much of this and I thought it was a rip off |
| 5 | and it was quite tasty and I thought I 'd stick it in there |
| 6 | I was gon na buy some but I thought you usually buy some so |
| 7 | Oh aye , it is painful but I thought it 's not going away so I 'd better go and see about it . |
| 8 | I was winding him up some because I thought he deserved it . |
| 9 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 10 | I find I am not as pleased by this as I thought I might be . |
| 11 | No , no yo yo i is n't it funny when I thought it is a fault , one of them discarded the right ? |
| 12 | So I was wrong when I thought they were fantastically healthy and a good advert for the Jungle . |
| 13 | It is n't as painful as I thought it would be . |
| 14 | I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too . |
| 17 | It was much bigger than I thought it would be . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's nicer than I thought it would be , but come inside my cunt . |
| 19 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 20 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 21 | Although a lifelong Labour voter , influenced by the poverty she saw as a teacher , Mrs Hughes spoke of how Mrs Thatcher ‘ gave me a lovely tour of No 10 and I thought she was such a nice person ’ . |
| 22 | And I 'd be sad if I thought you were less than happy with them . ’ |
| 23 | I was even more frightened the next morning , when I passed some large blood clots instead of urine , I became very agitated because I thought I must be dying ’ . |
| 24 | Getting on well with Matt — obviously there 's going to be some competition once we start work but he 's not half as paranoid as I thought he 'd be , a bit back-slapping , still I guess that 's Yanks for you . |
| 25 | go down and meet the bus so we 're sat there now ten past eleven and I thought I hope we have n't missed it now and she 's walked up , she 's standing out the door cos I 'd locked the door . |
| 26 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 27 | and I was upset and I thought it was just that but no , it was about two weeks before that I went down with it . |
| 28 | I found him half asleep and I thought it was you . |
| 29 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |
| 30 | He is , after all , the Chairman of that committee but certainly I advised him against that and I thought it was totally wrong er to do it in the way he did and I , I think it was a shame for this Council that he , that he did go ahead , but there you are . |