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

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1 And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick .
2 It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire .
3 Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man .
4 Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level .
5 I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry .
6 We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot .
7 Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women .
8 I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick .
9 She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class .
10 I say that I thought we had already been through all this .
11 ‘ There was everything between you … everything that I thought we had … in Seville … and here .
12 She even told Sybil that the frog in the school pond was enchanted , and poor Sybil was in such a state that I thought someone ought to teach Mildred a lesson . ‘
13 ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’
14 My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available .
15 I warned her that Drennan was trying to bribe your father with land and that I thought your father would accept the bribe ! ’
16 They 're only some letters that I thought your mother would like to have ! ’
17 Then I went out and bought some anaesthetic spray and applied it , but the pain was so excruciating that I thought my foot would fall off .
18 When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change .
19 ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months .
20 And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too .
21 ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense .
22 I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’
23 Its just that I thought you would n't come here any more … not after last night . ’
24 Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’
25 And you look so topping in that dress that I thought you might be a sport .
26 No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones .
27 ‘ I confess that I thought you 'd taken the boat .
28 ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’
29 But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well .
30 But I di , I did n't realise that I thought you were actually .
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