Example sentences of "i thought [prep] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I thought of a man who |
| 2 | I thought of the refugees whose turmoil was invading the whole of Europe . |
| 3 | I felt hotter than I need have done as I thought of the man who fed the dough on long , long shovels into that blazing hole . |
| 4 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |
| 5 | I thought for a minute you had that look about you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought for a minute you could have been Billy sitting there , ’ she said as she put the tea down on the desk . |
| 7 | I thought for a second he was going to burn it , but instead he tore it into tiny scraps that he tossed into the warm wind . |
| 8 | I thought for a second she was smoking so I avoided her and I do n't think she noticed me. when I came out , there was Shelima 's science book in a wash-basin smouldering away . |
| 9 | " I thought for a while it was for a baby of your own , " she said . |
| 10 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 11 | He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me . |
| 12 | I thought for a moment he was gathering his coat tails around him , like a woman would gather a long skirt , but it was n't that at all . |
| 13 | I thought for a moment he meant the tobacco industry , but realised that when big business and jobs are involved the 100,000 deaths per year counts for nothing . |
| 14 | I thought for a start it was because moving the dead body might have been a very messy business . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought for the £48 you got the sheep as well as the quota . ’ |
| 16 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 17 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 18 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 19 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 20 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 21 | I thought from the discussion we had a month or so ago , that they 've used the eighty three based correction factors , but it maybe something else because the description this morning was given it was some lo other local one . |