Example sentences of "think [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I did n't think I was a pretty child at all .
2 To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help .
3 I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’
4 She did think she was a little bit better than everyone else .
5 Jesus Christ , you 'd think you were the bloody Queen ! ’ a voice resounded from the kitchen .
6 He must have thought I was an absolute philistine — if they have those in Vietnam — I mean China — I mean Vietnam !
7 ‘ And how long have you thought you were a beached whale , Mr Thompson ? ’
8 Her face was pleasingly flushed from hurrying , but now she walked with her head held high , taking slow , dignified steps so that no one would have thought she was a domestic servant .
9 They must have thought we were a soft touch . ’
10 But their parents had obviously thought it was a suitable area .
11 Well I would n't have thought it was a one-one function .
12 I would have thought it was a regular occurrence .
13 Someone must have thought it was a bright idea , though .
14 I tell you what , erm , I 've got to revise my bit in of Gooch 's , I 'm such an admirer of him and everything , I have n't , I would have thought he was a brilliant strategist , I think during this summer he 's really begun to read the batsmen erm , strengths and failures and and set the field .
15 I would n't have thought he was the right bloke for this kind of operation , ’ Hitch said .
16 From the behaviour of the Crown Prosecution Service and Scotland Yard when we presented them with our damning evidence , you 'd think WE were the guilty party .
17 ‘ Did n't you think they were a peculiar family ? ’
18 We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body .
19 I thought I was a sixty-five-year-old woman with grey hair and a crepe neck . ’
20 I thought I was a serious fan , that was until I met the fans at this game .
21 I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man .
22 My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl .
23 In fact , at the time , I thought I was a real martyr .
24 ‘ The other kids at school thought I was a real wimp but they accepted me because I was always cheeky to the teachers .
25 You could interrogate me , at least , and if you thought I was a double agent you could put a bullet in my head .
26 I thought I was a free agent ? ’ she spat at him .
27 Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard .
28 At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it .
29 How comforting to read Gill Rowley 's Pet-Hate List ( YWTU , October GH ) about the check-out trolley pushers — I always thought I was the only person in the world who wanted to reverse , screaming hysterically , ‘ Get back ! ’
30 I thought I was the bad girl , but everybody else was doing exactly the same .
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