Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] were [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh I thought you were buying a new one with that money |
| 2 | He confirmed this impression by asking in tones rank with disbelief , ‘ You mean to tell me you thought you were pursuing a poor man ? ’ |
| 3 | We thought we were building a new Jerusalem , but these people seem hell bent on destroying Babylon . |
| 4 | Not really , was , though I thought we were offering a reasonable price taking everything into consideration |
| 5 | At first they thought they were fighting a small local plan , but they 're now calling this road a ’ motorway by stealth ’ . |
| 6 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |