Example sentences of "i thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalls , ‘ When I was sentenced I thought I 'd be killed straight away . |
| 2 | Sometimes I thought I could hear the noise of the rapids . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I thought they 'd taken care of them , ’ said Jenny . |
| 4 | I got as far as Grantchester and I thought , fuck it , yes , why not ? |
| 5 | I kept walking , past the old mill , right up around the bend to where the council property starts , and I thought , oh , shit , council houses . |
| 6 | But it was n't as bad as I thought it might be . |
| 7 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 8 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 9 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 10 | Like cutting into the surface of a pond , I thought , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , like pressing paint onto the surface of a pond , with total concentration and total folly . |
| 11 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 12 | And then , just after I 'd fallen asleep , as I thought , there was the damned organ moaning away and it was 6 a.m. again . |
| 13 | I THOUGHT Joe Hyam would like to know that we changed our menu four months ago to the fixed-price system . |
| 14 | FURTHER to your article TECs slammed over funding red tape ( Caterer , 22–28 August ) , I thought you might be interested to hear the other side of the coin . |
| 15 | As an individual who worked for over 10 years in relatively senior positions for two of the ‘ major brewers ’ , I thought it ironic that here was one set of red tape specialists accusing another . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , but I thought it must be some arch or something that everybody had to stoop to go through . |
| 17 | But he did eat it , and I thought he would . |
| 18 | You had n't told your wife about it , so I thought it was probably bad news , and that it might have upset you enough to — well , to do something . |
| 19 | for a while there I thought I was losing my touch . ’ |
| 20 | Magnus , I thought , was a spasmo , spotty piece of elephant dung . |
| 21 | But , although it was something to tell the others at school , secretly I thought he was important enough already . |
| 22 | What did she have to cry about , I thought as I stumbled through the door . |
| 23 | I thought about it and it made me feel a bit better . |
| 24 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 25 | When I grow up , I thought , I 'm going to join the Socialist Party and become a spy . |
| 26 | I 'll never go back , I thought . |
| 27 | I thought it would be expected of me . |
| 28 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 29 | And I thought there 'd be less fuss if I — ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe he 's got a girl in there , ’ I thought . |