Example sentences of "think it [be] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps they had only lived in London because he had thought it was what she wanted .
2 Certain happenings in her body had stopped ; she had thought it was something to do with being married , or almost so , to Paul .
3 If she heard on the News that a man had been murdered here , she might have thought it was me .
4 They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs .
5 ‘ United gave him away and Mike Walker must have thought it was his lucky day .
6 Oh dear , and he 'd thought it was his own animal magnetism .
7 I mean , if I 'd got pregnant he might have thought it was his , that he 'd got better somehow .
8 I would have thought it was your duty to take law …
9 ‘ You know , I 've always thought it was your sense of humour that attracted Walter to you , Hilda . ’
10 it 's not her thought it 's my fault
11 but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday
12 Thought it were one he fetched down .
13 Anyway because I were there with them you see he thought it were me that had got it and I says I have n't got it .
14 Initially my son did n't want to see me , the youngest girl thought it was her fault and tried to put it right , while the middle one seemed completely untouched by the whole thing .
15 At first she thought it was her eyes playing tricks ( did she have eyes ? ) , but then she recognized it : the glow cast by the Women 's spears .
16 Chesarynth thought it was her own screaming and embarrassment boiled through her but when she looked round , bodies were twitching and smoking everywhere as the computer-banks sparked into flame .
17 To my left I saw the long purple curtains twitch in the window and for a moment I thought it was her just making sure I 'd gone .
18 ‘ I thought it was him . ’
19 Flashman said : ‘ Barry and I took calls on Thursday from someone saying he was Martin Edwards , and we genuinely thought it was him .
20 ‘ We all thought it was him .
21 And I never knew there was actually a proper song to it , I thought it was one we 'd made up junior school .
22 I thought it was one .
23 I was fond of that duvet because I thought it was hers .
24 no , no , she thought it was hers and she wanted me
25 not re no , no , listen , listen , no listen , listen , listen , it 's not , wait a minute , no , right , it was up there , we thought it was hers but it was n't hers , so I took the wrong one
26 I 've just realized I have n't either , when I saw that woman crossing the road I thought it was her .
27 And thought it was somebody else .
28 I thought it was what Edward Pitt wanted . ’
29 ‘ You mean we lived in London because you thought it was what I wanted ? ’
30 But then it came natural we did n't take any notice of it , we thought it was what was expected of us you know .
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