Example sentences of "thought they [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought they might give us badges to wear with our names on , like at conferences ; but I suppose they thought this would imply we were n't even capable of uttering our own names . |
| 2 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 3 | I thought they might cheer you up . ’ |
| 4 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 5 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 6 | In the end she saw the giant fish-hooks come down down into her and she thought they would haul her out of the depths , but they did not . |
| 7 | When a sound start was then followed by a sparkling 80 from Richards , a classical 84 from Hooper and a thumping 72 from Marshall , with even Ambrose making 43 , we knew exactly what was what , and when Richards declared on the fourth evening at 448 for 9 , leaving England with a day plus 51 overs to survive , there were probably not many people who thought they would make it . |
| 8 | Mr Ralph had taken his children to the Disney resort in Florida because he thought they would enjoy it , but he had fallen in love with Mickey Mouse himself . |
| 9 | Half of those making this statement thought they would use it for experimentation and over 40 per cent for information handling . |
| 10 | When Helen told Price Waterhouse that this was what she wanted to do , she thought they would say it was all or nothing and tell her to pack her bags . |
| 11 | Farag laughed so loudly I thought they would hear us . ’ |
| 12 | The concept 's so simple and and the country 's littered with people who thought they could do it as well as us . |
| 13 | I had thought that builders built houses when they thought they thought they could sell them , I did n't realize it was part of some altruistic policy of complying with planning policy , still we learn everything every day , do n't we ? |
| 14 | Benn said : ‘ I thought they 'd give it to him or a draw or some rubbish like that . |
| 15 | ‘ I suddenly thought they 'd shut me in there . |
| 16 | ‘ My heart was pounding so loud I thought they 'd hear it . |
| 17 | So they thought they 'd have it checked out ? |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | I thought they 'd find them sixty odd . |
| 20 | Erm , I came down and explained what the nature was , what you wanted to be done , you did n't really explain why and how important that our was , which I felt , that he said what he needing doing , he said what resources he had , and he said that , he did n't really set tasks erm , but he did ask them what they thought they should do you know . |