Example sentences of "think [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must think I was taking a lot for granted , sorting all this out before — well , before I even knew you 'd let me on the island , let alone still want me . ’ |
| 2 | She says she does n't think she was wearing a hat with a chin strap . |
| 3 | Mrs Chambers must think she was feeding a navvy ! |
| 4 | ‘ Not in that respect , but I did think she was looking a lot older . ’ |
| 5 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 6 | Mrs. Steed 's evidence was not , however , that she had thought she was signing a document of some different character from that which in fact she had signed . |
| 7 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 8 | If we said we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some teachers would think we were advocating a return to old-fashioned exercises in parsing and clause analysis . |
| 9 | They flash their eyes at each other so much you 'd think they were rehearsing a scene from Carmen . |
| 10 | Thought I was copping a plea on … diminished responsibility . |
| 11 | I thought I was taking a heart attack , but er Doctor gave me a rub of that Di Difa Dif |
| 12 | I thought I was seeing a ghost . |
| 13 | During the Christie 's London Old Master drawings sale last season he approached a number of leading dealers ( ‘ I 'm sure Noel Annesley thought I was organising a ring ’ he commented ) and arranged a meeting . |
| 14 | I thought I was meeting a man . |
| 15 | I thought I was having a nightmare . |
| 16 | They thought I was having a fight with him . |
| 17 | By that time they were bad , so I told her I thought I was having a miscarriage . |
| 18 | ‘ That brought mum and dad through ; thought I was having a fit or something . |
| 19 | I have to say , however , that whenever he thought I was becoming a shade morbid on visions of apocalyptic doom , my old friend Archie Dow , would admonish me : ’ Ach , Andra , I 've been waitin' fir the end i' the world all my life . |
| 20 | Nicola did n't believe me when I told her she thought I was playing a joke |
| 21 | She thought I was playing a joke . |
| 22 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 23 | A few people thought I was making a living in something other than fashion , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 24 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |
| 25 | I thought you were cooking a meal tomorrow ? |
| 26 | Thought you were to fetch a plate of bread and butter ? |
| 27 | ‘ She thought she was getting a millionaire . |
| 28 | I thought she was leaving a note or something , no ? |
| 29 | I thought she was having a school lunch |
| 30 | That is only possible where the signer can establish ( a ) that he/she signed the document without negligence and ( b ) that he/she mistakenly thought he/she was signing a document of a fundamentally different type from that actually signed ( Saunders v Anglia BS [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |