Example sentences of "i thought for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought for a minute , then I said , ‘ Yes , I can keep a secret . ’ |
| 2 | I thought for a minute you had that look about you . ’ |
| 3 | I thought for a minute , he said down to Mr Blobby did n't you ? |
| 4 | ‘ I thought for a minute you could have been Billy sitting there , ’ she said as she put the tea down on the desk . |
| 5 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 6 | I thought for a second he was going to burn it , but instead he tore it into tiny scraps that he tossed into the warm wind . |
| 7 | I thought for a second she was smoking so I avoided her and I do n't think she noticed me. when I came out , there was Shelima 's science book in a wash-basin smouldering away . |
| 8 | I thought for a while . |
| 9 | " I thought for a while it was for a baby of your own , " she said . |
| 10 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 11 | I thought for a while that the information would just go on accumulating from here on in , but thank God it 's already begun dropping off . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought for a while , when you drove past Lubor and me at lunchtime the next day and looked so angry , that my dinner appointment with you might be off , ’ she felt safe in commenting . |
| 13 | But I thought for a girl that 's |
| 14 | I thought for a moment . |
| 15 | I thought for a moment . |
| 16 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 17 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 18 | I thought for a moment . |
| 19 | I thought for a moment , but could not find the right answer . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought for a moment there I was going to get hysterical and start yelling knickers . |
| 21 | He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me . |
| 22 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 23 | I thought for a moment . |
| 24 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I thought for a moment that you 'd run out on me . ’ |
| 26 | Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza . |
| 27 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 28 | I thought for a moment that he was going to beat me . |
| 29 | ‘ Well in September eighteen and a half years ago , ’ I thought for a moment , ‘ I had just finished my exams . |
| 30 | I thought for a moment he was gathering his coat tails around him , like a woman would gather a long skirt , but it was n't that at all . |