Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] was [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I was a sixty-five-year-old woman with grey hair and a crepe neck . ’ |
| 2 | I thought I was a serious fan , that was until I met the fans at this game . |
| 3 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 4 | My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl . |
| 5 | In fact , at the time , I thought I was a real martyr . |
| 6 | ‘ The other kids at school thought I was a real wimp but they accepted me because I was always cheeky to the teachers . |
| 7 | You could interrogate me , at least , and if you thought I was a double agent you could put a bullet in my head . |
| 8 | I thought I was a free agent ? ’ she spat at him . |
| 9 | Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard . |
| 10 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 11 | 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 ! ’ |
| 12 | I thought I was the bad girl , but everybody else was doing exactly the same . |
| 13 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 14 | And three : that you thought I was an ambitious sharpie trying to steal your father 's company . ’ |
| 15 | I thought you was a little lady ? |
| 16 | He obviously thought she was a man-hungry piranha , and really who could blame him ? |
| 17 | Mother called her Aunt Mary , and thought she was a grand woman , She had children of her own , you see , and would try and persuade Aunt Bessie to be a little less strict with Mother . |
| 18 | I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori . |
| 19 | The fact that he obviously thought she was a good nurse pleased her and gave her confidence , while the fact that Belinda had not betrayed his secret and gossiped about his wife and her illness earned his gratitude and respect , so that now they were allies and she knew she would be able to go to him if ever she had a problem at the hospital . |
| 20 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |
| 21 | In fact , one of the Road Traffic boys thought she was a Libyan terrorist at first . |
| 22 | I thought she was a lovely person . |
| 23 | Well , if he thought she was a good-time girl then that was his affair . |
| 24 | TV presenter Michaela Strachan thought she was an early April Fool victim when she made her debut on The Really Wild Show . |
| 25 | They wanted to get rid of her because they thought she was an interfering busybody . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I thought she was the cleaning woman first of all . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps the Indians thought it was a religious thing , like celebrating the 500th anniversary of a cathedral or whatever . |
| 29 | ‘ 'Cos I thought it was a daft idea . |
| 30 | I thought it was a terrible lot of money when I saw it . |