Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] thought the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was desolated by the emotional separation from my mother , whom I thought the most wonderful person in the world . |
| 2 | that 's what I did , and I I thought the same thing . |
| 3 | Cos I I thought the the pit was quite well known for being a poor poor payer . |
| 4 | I I thought the B B C I thought the B B C could n't advertise then ? |
| 5 | Unfortunately I ruined the film I I thought the film had erm wound on finished and it had and it the batteries had gone flat so it had n't , so I opened it and I lost all the . |
| 6 | And I I thought the only ones I 've ever seen and they 've got like things like three eight and Chevvy or maybe a V er . |
| 7 | Freud was a rationalist , impatient with religion , and Jung someone who thought the non-rational and religious areas of human experience held something of worth for modern man . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't ask me ; you 're talking to somebody who thought the way to make the world a better place was to become a journalist . |
| 9 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 10 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |
| 11 | In the same case , at 427 , Denning LJ ( as he then was ) gave more examples in the following passage and summarised the circumstances in which he thought the court would interfere : |
| 12 | It 'ud be worse than useless telling them she thought the Cap'n 's slave had rights , needed care and attention and … and … she 'd better speak out before they 'd a chance to ask awkward questions ! |
| 13 | Getting back to the golf itself I thought the dovetailing of Seve Ballesteros and Jose-Maria Olazabal during the first two days was absolutely wonderful to see and the David and Goliath partnership of Ian Woosnam and Nick Faldo was superb . |
| 14 | Some were rinky-dink experts on the wet , like Hans Stuck ; he was one who thought the conditions actually favoured him . |
| 15 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
| 16 | He had asked me to go and work with him when he opened The Chicago Rib Shack , but I told him I thought the location was wrong . ’ |
| 17 | I told her I thought The Times would probably have a man on the spot and it was late , and I prised my Toshiba away from her grasping hands . |
| 18 | Mr Baker told me he thought the decision to exclude Enid Blyton had proved a brilliant ploy to attract attention away from our more serious and controversial proposals . |
| 19 | I 've talked with one of dad 's friends , and he told me he thought the stories were accurate . ’ |
| 20 | In an astonishing verbal assault on the justice administration and on the civil service , Hitler — allegedly voicing the exact sentiments of a great proportion of the population — made it clear whom he thought the main culprits were , and threatened to remove their privileged position and ‘ well-established rights ’ and to dismiss offenders instantaneously . |
| 21 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 22 | He himself thought The Confidential Clerk to be his most profound play , but it is difficult now to see this . |
| 23 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 24 | That 's what I thought the trolley sounded like as we went through the green channel . |
| 25 | While there may be much to be said for the views expressed in this passage it seems to me with all respect to Wilson J. that she was stating what she thought the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 26 | I asked her what she thought the role of solidarity is now . |
| 27 | Alice were having I said just lend me that twenty pound note cos you , and God knows what she thought the bill was I says I 've got seven pound , I says just lend me your twenty pound note , I says you 'll still have enough to pay I says and I 'll give you it back when I get home , you know ? |
| 28 | is that what you thought the nineteen forty nine revolution was all about ? |
| 29 | At Wentworth Woodhouse we advised on what we thought the West Riding should buy at the sale to keep in the house . |
| 30 | I think the only comment I would have on there is we spelt out specifically what we thought the project manager should be responsible for in the actual remit stages itself . |