Example sentences of "thought [pron] was the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | I thought I was the bad girl , but everybody else was doing exactly the same . |
| 4 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 5 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 6 | I thought she was the cleaning woman first of all . ’ |
| 7 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 8 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 9 | I thought it was the front doorbell . |
| 10 | I wanted to run it because I thought it was the only way we stood a chance . |
| 11 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
| 12 | Carrie thought it was the saddest sound site had ever heard . |
| 13 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 14 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 15 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
| 16 | The final great act — for everyone thought it was the final act — took place on 16 November . |
| 17 | At first I thought it was the naval guns out in the Channel . |
| 18 | Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily . |
| 19 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 20 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 21 | I thought it was the National Front actually |
| 22 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 23 | ‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , I thought it was the Last Rites they gave you when you were dying , what d' you call it , Extreme Unction ? ’ |
| 25 | Dot thought it was the loveliest book she 'd ever seen . |
| 26 | At the start of the campaign people thought it was the main issue being stressed by the Conservatives , but they soon changed their minds . |
| 27 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 28 | I thought it was the tragic comedy like life really . |
| 29 | Wilkinson thought it was the worst header of his career ! |
| 30 | For a moment she was confused ; she thought it was the thin man , and she could n't work out how he 'd got behind them . |