Example sentences of "think [pers pn] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did n't think I was a pretty child at all . |
| 2 | To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help . |
| 3 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 4 | She did think she was a little bit better than everyone else . |
| 5 | Anybody would think she was a promiscuous little tart , the way her family reproached her for her single status … |
| 6 | because I did n't think she was the right one for him , I would n't have picked her I 'd 've picked somebody else |
| 7 | Still , I had n't thought I was a big enough fish for this sort of attention . ’ |
| 8 | He must have thought I was an absolute philistine — if they have those in Vietnam — I mean China — I mean Vietnam ! |
| 9 | Her face was pleasingly flushed from hurrying , but now she walked with her head held high , taking slow , dignified steps so that no one would have thought she was a domestic servant . |
| 10 | But their parents had obviously thought it was a suitable area . |
| 11 | Well I would n't have thought it was a one-one function . |
| 12 | I would have thought it was a regular occurrence . |
| 13 | Someone must have thought it was a bright idea , though . |
| 14 | I tell you what , erm , I 've got to revise my bit in of Gooch 's , I 'm such an admirer of him and everything , I have n't , I would have thought he was a brilliant strategist , I think during this summer he 's really begun to read the batsmen erm , strengths and failures and and set the field . |
| 15 | I would n't have thought he was the right bloke for this kind of operation , ’ Hitch said . |
| 16 | I thought I was a sixty-five-year-old woman with grey hair and a crepe neck . ’ |
| 17 | I thought I was a serious fan , that was until I met the fans at this game . |
| 18 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 19 | My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl . |
| 20 | ‘ The other kids at school thought I was a real wimp but they accepted me because I was always cheeky to the teachers . |
| 21 | In fact , at the time , I thought I was a real martyr . |
| 22 | You could interrogate me , at least , and if you thought I was a double agent you could put a bullet in my head . |
| 23 | I thought I was a free agent ? ’ she spat at him . |
| 24 | Such a fleeting allegiance was common amongst Surrealism 's female associates : Frida Kahlo never joined up at all , and she spoke for many of the women who where connected with Surrealism when she declared that Breton and his circle ‘ thought I was a Surrealist , but I was n't . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She remembers Bailey taking her home to meet Gladys in East Ham : ‘ She was quite severe , but I liked her , although she thought I was a hoity-toity little madam . |
| 27 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 28 | 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 ! ’ |
| 29 | I thought I was the only one mad enough to go walking in this weather . ’ |
| 30 | I thought I was the only one to satisfy you ; you told me that once ; you said I was the only one who had ever made you — ’ |