Example sentences of "that i thought [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
2 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
3 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
4 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
5 | Its just that I thought you would n't come here any more … not after last night . ’ |
6 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
7 | And you look so topping in that dress that I thought you might be a sport . |
8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
9 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
10 | And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too . |
11 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
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 | 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 . |
14 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
17 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
18 | Parting you from Jones that time does n't seem to have curtailed your ongoing little adventure — not that I thought it would . ’ |
19 | It had been so successful , mon cher — the audience that first night was in rapture — that I thought it would run and run . |
20 | My son was so feeble that I thought I would lose him at birth . |
21 | ‘ I was n't ; it was only when I was talking about it to Gina that I thought I ought to come here and tell you . ’ |
22 | ‘ Only that I thought I might move house in a couple of years . |
23 | At least I you see , with the virus I was sometimes in such a state that I thought I might have bowel cancer |
24 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
25 | I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with . |
26 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |
27 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
28 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
29 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
30 | It takes me places that I thought I 'd never see |