Example sentences of "[pron] thought [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And knowing how close Mickey is to him , I thought we had better let him know . ’ |
| 2 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 3 | I thought we 'd better get out the way there ! |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd best get as far from Dalston as I could , so I came this side of London Bridge and looked for lodgings . |
| 5 | That 's right , yeah , so I thought I 'd best get it |
| 6 | Then when he followed you down the corridor I thought I 'd better make sure you were alright . ’ |
| 7 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 8 | I thought I 'd better make a cup of coffee . |
| 9 | So I thought I 'd better deliver her back to her husband . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I did n't get up Sunday , then I thought I 'd better go in to work on Monday , but I came home early and I 've been in bed ever since . ’ |
| 11 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 12 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I 'd better dance with you in case you wanted another drink . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ My job as deputy chief whip is to get MPs to pull their weight , so I thought I 'd better set an example . ’ |
| 15 | Does n't matter who , but I thought I 'd better check her out . |
| 16 | I thought I 'd better rescue it before it went out with the rubbish . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I stopped to make a phone call , and I thought I 'd better drop off some clothes at the dry-cleaner 's . ’ |
| 18 | So I thought I 'd better clear that little matter up , for starters , because you would be very interested . |
| 19 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 20 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 21 | I thought I 'd better have a word with you about the incredibly clever trick-ending . |
| 22 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 23 | I thought I 'd better get it sorted out before I died . ’ |
| 24 | Er I was still slobbing around in my dressing-gown and you know yesterday 's clothes and so I I I thought I 'd better get up and do stuff . |
| 25 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , film work 's very precarious , of course — so I thought I 'd better get a steady job for a bit , especially when my money ran out . ’ |
| 27 | I thought I 'd better get in here first before Mr , and er Michael start hurling pieces of coal at each other . |
| 28 | Edwin was a crafty old so-andso and he did n't like his children very much — not that I blame him — so I thought I 'd better get the beneficiaries together and explain . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been tepid sponging and monitoring since he was admitted , but there does n't appear to be any improvement — in fact , I 'd say he 's marginally worse than he was an hour ago , so I thought I 'd better get you to take a look at him . ’ |
| 30 | So I thought I 'd better bury the poor thing . ’ |