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 . |