Example sentences of "thought [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 3 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 4 | I thought I 'd got through the trauma , but as the days passed I started to feel constantly thirsty . |
| 5 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you had sailed on the schooner with the others . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you liked looking after the shops . ’ |
| 8 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
| 9 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 10 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 11 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 12 | They were never sold , though the lawyers thought they had gone with the others . |
| 13 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 14 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
| 15 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 17 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 18 | ‘ But the other , the man , the forensic pathologist thought he 'd died from the effects of nerve gas . ’ |
| 19 | I did n't know about the woman and thought he 'd chipped from the left-hand side of the fairway to the right-hand side . |