Example sentences of "[conj] i thought the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was sick of seeing myself on television , so I thought the poor public , how are they going to cope . |
| 2 | If I was a man and I thought the only way to get my jollies was by coughing up for a woman 's veal in a sorrel coulis , I would be suicidal . |
| 3 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 4 | I was sitting in the sitting-room about to make a cup of coffee when I heard a huge bang and I thought the whole house was going to cave in . |
| 5 | They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ? |
| 6 | But I thought the other girl was good . |
| 7 | ‘ But I thought the recent Act of Parliament had stopped all that , ’ Catherine said . |
| 8 | But I thought the main concern would be finding the right building for a museum of this type , and that there would be no need to buy any pictures for it . |
| 9 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 10 | Looking for support and because I thought the Royal Society of Chemistry would welcome an opportunity of improving the standing of chemists in the community , some three years ago I sent the secretary-general of the RSC a letter very similar to the one published ( Chem . |
| 11 | Though I thought the above observation worthy of a mini-publication , it might be said that it was not all that surprising . |