Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] [be] 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 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 8 | Brugge coach Hugo Broos bemoaned Nisbet 's goal and said : ‘ I thought we were the better team . ’ |
| 9 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |
| 11 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 12 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 13 | And er they thought they were the big cheese you see , th th th those who worked there . |
| 14 | He thought they were the local militia . |
| 15 | ( 43 ) * We thought it be the right choice . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought it was the front doorbell . |
| 19 | I wanted to run it because I thought it was the only way we stood a chance . |
| 20 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
| 21 | Carrie thought it was the saddest sound site had ever heard . |
| 22 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 23 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The final great act — for everyone thought it was the final act — took place on 16 November . |
| 26 | At first I thought it was the naval guns out in the Channel . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | I thought it was the National Front actually |