Example sentences of "[pron] thought i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe someone thought I needed some fizz , you know ? |
| 2 | He recalls , ‘ When I was sentenced I thought I 'd be killed straight away . |
| 3 | Sometimes I thought I could hear the noise of the rapids . |
| 4 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 5 | for a while there I thought I was losing my touch . ’ |
| 6 | I thought I saw someone moving in the front room . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I was a bird of paradise before , but that was in the flow of what never quite materialised — that new play ? |
| 8 | I thought I could bestow beauty |
| 9 | I thought I understood your face |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I 'd wait until I made a go of it before I told you . |
| 11 | For a flicker of a moment as the policeman looked up at me I thought I had struck a wall again , but then the door opened . |
| 12 | I thought I saw something purple floating in the tide , a pair of trousers , or a skirt , an upsidedown umbrella even . |
| 13 | Being the nosy type , I thought I 'd pick his brains . |
| 14 | So I thought I 'd drop you a line through the magazine to convey my get-well-soon message and show the rest of the readership what a handsome chap you are . |
| 15 | Looking around , I saw this man with a beard , who smelled nice and friendly , so I thought I 'd go and say ‘ hello ’ . |
| 16 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I was out , ’ Maclean said , ‘ then I hit a couple of shots out of my arse , and I was in . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought I 'd be beaten , ’ Turi said , ‘ but I began to realise I 'd chosen the right route by not cutting inside fences . |
| 19 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 20 | I thought I just had a voice . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I did well , ’ the European Footballer of the Year said yesterday . |
| 23 | For one thing , I thought I had cleared the nest recently , and that if she was sitting on anything at all , her clutch could not number more than two or three eggs . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew I was n't going great but I thought I 'd score 8,200-8,300 . |
| 25 | I thought I detected a smirk on the face of Mills Roberts . |
| 26 | I thought I detected a knowing smile on the face of the Scouse as he ignored his critics , the flies , the mosquitoes , the smells , and settled into his armchair at the entrance to the latrine . |
| 27 | I took it out with me and forgot about it — at least I thought I had . ’ |
| 28 | After twelve years in management , I have n't yet had a tape arrive which I thought I could do anything with . |
| 29 | I thought I was Terence Rattigan . |
| 30 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |