Example sentences of "i thought the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 2 | I thought the Great War had begun all over again . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the first worked example I thought the female carer had an underlying entitlement to invalid care allowance and the carer 's premium . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought the High Court had done that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach . |
| 8 | I thought the whole thing had been a set-up — to get rid of the old President and his Communist allies . |