Example sentences of "think [pron] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did you think I 'd kicked the bucket , Ma ? ’
2 Really , Tom , the way you 're defending her , anyone would think I 'd tortured the girl !
3 What made him think she 'd visited the palazzo before ?
4 Anyone would think she had committed the worst crime in the world instead of simply having a little too much to drink and — well , behaving just a little foolishly .
5 She remembered with strange clarity the concentration she had put into cutting the flowers ; how she had hoped her father would think she had chosen the right ones .
6 Anyone would have thought I 'd lowered the resale value of the van or something .
7 Had n't she thought she 'd seen the last of Rourke Deveraugh ?
8 She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice .
9 Commons authorities had thought they had rid the building of all asbestos — used extensively in the 1920s and 30s — during a big clean-up operation 10 years ago .
10 NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency .
11 Well why do you think we kept turning the music down ? ?
12 ‘ We thought someone had stolen the horse and cart . ’
13 Lord above , I thought I had endured the worst of insults already this day !
14 I thought I had missed the fish and cried out in pain .
15 Even though I thought the job was really mine I thought I had to create the impression of somebody who was , you know , above board , for , you know , the Catholics .
16 For one thing , I thought I had cleared the nest recently , and that if she was sitting on anything at all , her clutch could not number more than two or three eggs .
17 Oh I thought I had to get the estate agent first and then get the space .
18 I think she thought I had taken the wind out of Rossetti 's sails … .
19 But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ .
20 ‘ I thought I 'd lost the West End part by choosing the Hamlet tour , ’ she puzzled .
21 We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up .
22 When I met her , I thought I 'd met the ideal woman .
23 I thought I 'd saved the cuddles and there were n't any more .
24 ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’
25 Oh well er what I was going to say is that er I thought I 'd summed the person up that he 'd selected and I , I thought oh she i er it 's not gon na be easy for him , and it was n't , you know , she was a bit of a bit of a so and so I think really .
26 I thought I 'd mentioned the names but she said no .
27 I thought I 'd changed the roster .
28 So naturally the police thought I 'd identified the wrong body as Uncle . ’
29 I was scared to death , really I thought I 'd got the push .
30 Every time I thought I 'd got the hang of it the service changed .
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