Example sentences of "think [pers pn] 'd [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 'd taken a breath from when he took his stance until the ball finished up on the green . |
| 2 | You 'd have thought he 'd seen a ghost ! — He hopped it , then . |
| 3 | I do n't know if we 'd have worried about that if we 'd thought he 'd done a bunk . |
| 4 | They 'd think we 'd had a quarrel . ’ |
| 5 | To hear him tell it you 'd think they 'd had a date and she 'd turned up late ! |
| 6 | For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course . |
| 7 | But erm but I thought I 'd made a mistake somewhere . |
| 8 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
| 9 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 10 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ At first I thought I 'd hooked a tree because it felt so solid . |
| 12 | I thought I 'd a had a , I thought I 'd had a problem but I , I injured myself as well . |
| 13 | Laugh , Ah thought Ah 'd hud a relapse of my cystitis . |
| 14 | I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty . |
| 15 | I thought you 'd done a runner and run away |
| 16 | ‘ When I did see him , he said ‘ I thought you 'd got a cold ? ’ |
| 17 | I thought you 'd got a bit carried away when you were drawing them . ’ |
| 18 | , I thought you 'd started a book to put those , all these paper cuttings ? |
| 19 | He never pretended to feelings he did n't have and if he thought she 'd made a fool of herself he 'd say so , but never to do her down , never to boost himself at her expense . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought she 'd had a cocktail waitress , dear , ’ said Francis . |
| 21 | She thought she 'd married a pair of muscular , sheltering arms and what she 'd got was a snivelling kid still frightened of Mummy . |
| 22 | ‘ People like Stock , Aitken & Waterman thought they 'd discovered a formula for pop music , and there is n't a formula . |
| 23 | He thought he 'd heard a sound , there towards the end of the parapet at the top of the steps . |
| 24 | ‘ All through The Graduate Nichols thought he 'd made a mistake in casting me . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought he 'd made a bolt for it , ’ said Dalziel . |
| 26 | we enjoyed walking home , I thought he 'd gone a bingo , that 's funny were n't you going home baby sitting . |
| 27 | ‘ Streuer was behind us and he thought he 'd seen a gap , but Steve cut across . |
| 28 | Thus , when Dennis offered him exactly half what he had been making , Lauda thought he 'd had a touch of sun . |
| 29 | WHEN Arnold Parker bought a chocolate gateau in his local grocer 's shop , he thought he 'd got a bargain . |
| 30 | He thought he 'd got a job for life when he got his old mate Humphrey in as master — they were at school together , you know — but all that 's backfired pretty badly . |