Example sentences of "and i thought [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 I went in there and I thought something was burning .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ‘ 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 … ’
6 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 .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ My colleague and I thought we could stop patients ’ psychotic tendencies by removing the parts of the brain responsible for triggering violence .
10 ‘ Fiona and I thought we 'd try something like that , one time we were in Oban , for some do .
11 And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’
12 ‘ But it 's odd , we had these great reviews after our Leeds show , and I thought we totally bombed .
13 ‘ Well , Catherine and I thought we 'd just walk to the Lintons ’ house .
14 Sir Bruce sipped , made a face , and whispered to Agnes : ‘ And I thought we suffered at MoD .
15 We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’
16 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 .
17 ‘ But it 's odd , we had these great reviews after our Leeds show , and I thought we totally bombed .
18 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 .
19 ‘ The team had put on a marvellous display out in Georgia and I thought we 'd get a few more than 6,000 .
20 Hastings said : ‘ I am very proud of my boys and I thought we played very well , especially the forwards .
21 It was a great team effort , and I thought we could have scored another two or three . ’
22 And I thought we might look at a few of them .
23 you know the priority was either P H I , savings or whatever and I thought we 've gone through the whole form
24 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 .
25 He went anyway and I thought we might as well
26 Well he said yesterday had we , we 'd got enough and I thought we had .
27 well er , and I thought we 'd probably stop at er on the way in , if we wanted to , to go and get any basic provisions at the , the big
28 Er well I left the stuffing cos I , I did n't think I 'd left it in long enough , I put it in a bit late and I thought we 'd leave the stuffing .
29 And I thought we 've had to Eileen back something before because they 've fought .
30 And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago
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