Example sentences of "and [pron] thought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they , er nowhere , we did n't get them from anywhere we just used to think them up and everyone thought we were potty did n't they ? |
| 2 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 3 | ‘ And everyone thought it was Gramps who was the father ? ’ |
| 4 | He thought he was having a secret affair , and everyone thought I did n't know and was terribly sympathetic . |
| 5 | It was a delicious reunion and everyone thought I looked amazingly well on my borrowed blood . |
| 6 | And everyone thought he was posing but it was actually who did it . |
| 7 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 8 | I went in there and I thought something was burning . |
| 9 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 10 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought of going out for some choc bars , ’ he would say , adding sotto voce as his daughter ran for her anorak , ‘ and I thought we might drop off at the gym/piano teacher's/library on the way … ’ |
| 12 | Faith Hillman and I thought we would enjoy this unique opportunity to fly over twenty countries , retracing the ‘ Empire Air Route ’ flown by mail carriers sixty years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ The only reason I ever played Les Pauls was because Keith was playing a Strat and I thought we should have a different look , but from about 1985 on I 've played Strats . |
| 14 | We never fought when we were engaged , and I thought we 'd just get married and have our own little home , I thought the bills would get paid and we 'd be closer than we were before . |
| 15 | ‘ My colleague and I thought we could stop patients ’ psychotic tendencies by removing the parts of the brain responsible for triggering violence . |
| 16 | ‘ Fiona and I thought we 'd try something like that , one time we were in Oban , for some do . |
| 17 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But it 's odd , we had these great reviews after our Leeds show , and I thought we totally bombed . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Catherine and I thought we 'd just walk to the Lintons ’ house . |
| 20 | Sir Bruce sipped , made a face , and whispered to Agnes : ‘ And I thought we suffered at MoD . |
| 21 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 22 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 23 | ‘ But it 's odd , we had these great reviews after our Leeds show , and I thought we totally bombed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The team had put on a marvellous display out in Georgia and I thought we 'd get a few more than 6,000 . |
| 26 | Hastings said : ‘ I am very proud of my boys and I thought we played very well , especially the forwards . |
| 27 | It was a great team effort , and I thought we could have scored another two or three . ’ |
| 28 | And I thought we might look at a few of them . |
| 29 | you know the priority was either P H I , savings or whatever and I thought we 've gone through the whole form |
| 30 | We actually got the rigging up and sailed around for a while in twos — I was with my brother and I thought we managed quite well . |