Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I saw some students go across the road , they went out of the main entrance and walked |
| 2 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 3 | I thought I spotted some magazines on that shelf . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe someone thought I needed some fizz , you know ? |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you wanted some air , sweetheart , that 's all … ’ |
| 6 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
| 7 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 8 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 9 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
| 10 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 11 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 12 | She thought he welcomed some time alone . |