Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] must [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she slumped back in her chair , mouthing the nicotine-dosed chewing gum she used instead of cigarettes , and I thought I must have imagined an intensity of which she was surely incapable . |
| 2 | ‘ Gabriel , perhaps I should n't have come , but I — I thought I must have offended you , and that 's why you 're going away . ’ |
| 3 | When I came down here , I thought I must have known who it was . |
| 4 | She thought I must have died in the previous night 's snowstorm . |
| 5 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you must have done . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When it took you so long to get here , I thought you must have gone on up to his place with him , but I suppose Nicky Kai is still in residence . |
| 8 | I thought you must have scared him off … . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We thought you must have got lost . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you must have had an accident — I even checked out the hospitals this morning . ’ |
| 11 | It was so far from her usual style that Charles thought she must have undergone some violent change of personality . |
| 12 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 13 | Piers turned around to face her , and for a split second his glance swept over her with appreciation , but the moment was gone so quickly that she thought she must have imagined it . |
| 14 | Molly thought she must have seen something . |
| 15 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 16 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 17 | At first , Topaz thought they must have quarrelled but , as the stillness was never broken , she concluded it was yet another odd custom practised by the strange women who surrounded her . |
| 18 | For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought they must have had a quarrel , ’ Brand said , and I had the impression he was n't heartbroken about it . ’ |
| 20 | She thought they must have looked ridiculous , two people over thirty surreptitiously clawing at each other through layer upon layer of raincoat , wool and cotton . |
| 21 | She thought they must like singing very much since they went to the chapel so often . |
| 22 | I thought it must have knocked itself so I treated with Curazin . |
| 23 | The watchers thought that the Silver Birches would certainly be a bit wild and probably without any moral sense at all and Clumhach thought he must remember to tell everyone about his great uncle who had succumbed to a Silver Birch one scandalous afternoon . |
| 24 | Then , all of a sudden , there was a sort of bang and the dog started yelping and I thought he must have fallen or something and that he might be hurt . |
| 25 | I thought he must have stood me up … backed out at the last minute … |
| 26 | Philip thought he must have seen him but he had n't , because he stopped and whistled again , looking up towards the cliffs . |
| 27 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 28 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
| 29 | The soldier said he did n't remember firing but thought he must have fired as the car was going away from him . |
| 30 | For a moment Agnes thought he must have pulled a muscle , then giggled as she , and she alone , realised he had come close to spilling his holstered pistol . |