Example sentences of "thought [pron] would [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You thought you 'd be Sherlock Holmes ? ’ |
| 3 | I bet some of the crew thought there 'd be wheels right into the Jungle and food trucks parked every few miles and they 'd get burgers and chips served by girls wearing flower garlands round their necks . |
| 4 | Thought there 'd be violence |
| 5 | ‘ I thought it would be chips with everything , ’ she whispered . |
| 6 | ‘ I always thought it would be marriage or nothing for you — especially after the way you 've kept men at arm 's length over the years I 've known you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought it would be Mr Lawrence … |
| 8 | I thought it would be Michael . |
| 9 | My husband really thought it would be Major Oak . |
| 10 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 11 | Marilyn Thompson was Charlie 's wife 's best friend ; Charlie was to be Jack 's best man and one day he thought he would be godfather to Jack 's first child . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought he 'd be man enough to — ’ but Leith had other things on her mind and wasted no time cutting in and going into orbit . |