Example sentences of "i thought at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 2 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 3 | I thought at one time Didi and I would get along well enough , but , after finding my sweet , simple , clumsy , courageous , honest , fiery … ’ his voice dropped to a husky whisper ‘ … beautiful , passionate Sagittarian , I know no other woman would have satisfied me . ’ |
| 4 | Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do . |
| 5 | Harry and I thought at one stage that if we could find a proper home |
| 6 | I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young . |
| 7 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
| 8 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 11 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 12 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought at first , that 's not my kind of song , ’ said Rolf , more famous for Two Little Boys and Jake The Peg . |
| 14 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When I was in Egypt I thought at first that the sun and the desert , the empty sky and the empty sand — that there was nowhere more grand . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought at first , what was the mother like since there 's so little of the Flowers in any of them , since they are so good and clean and wipe their noses always on their handkerchiefs and never on their sleeves7 But the veneer is rubbing off already . ’ |
| 17 | I thought at first she had taken it well , and then she went crazy . |
| 18 | ‘ Once I cut the neckline wrong on three hundred dresses and I thought at first I 'd just keep quiet and fill the gap with lace . |
| 19 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
| 20 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |
| 21 | I thought at first that Lady Eleanor had fainted . |
| 22 | I thought at first she was going to lend a hand . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |
| 24 | And I thought at first that it was good , because my mistress had lost her interest in life and I thought this might renew it . ’ |
| 25 | I thought at first it was too high but not for our hero . |
| 26 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
| 27 | I thought at first they were racoons then I realised they were pandas . |
| 28 | It 's not what I thought at all . |
| 29 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 30 | I thought at half time I had got it exactly right . |