Example sentences of "what you thought [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , too , you have to scratch ear to make sure you really did just hear what you thought you had , for although spotting-the-influence occasionally seems to tempt the listener , there is some highly individual writing here , and the prodigality of the invention is startling : the music simply poured out of her , sometimes with a batty , Ancient-Mariner intensity that buttonholes the listener willy-nilly , not stopping to form its garrulousness into coherent shapes . |
| 2 | He will probably get you to agree the opposite of what you thought you said , as he did with " considerable " . |
| 3 | You did n't do what you thought you were doing . |
| 4 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
| 5 | And the rate of change of , of , of society no the background to what we 're doing , shifts the goalposts is the fashionable term but what you thought you meant you no longer mean , and of course , if one is meticulously methodical , one adjusts the definition as the circumstances change |
| 6 | ‘ I said what you thought I said , ’ Sulien replied . |
| 7 | And I never was … what you thought I was … never ! ’ |
| 8 | If this frequency does n't suit you , now is the time to talk things through because otherwise you could end up in a longterm relationship in which sex is not what you thought it would be . |
| 9 | In the second section , although you noted some of the imagery and discussed it intelligently , you often moved too far away from the imagery itself and relied on an ‘ outside ’ view of the poem ( what you thought it must be about ) to interpret it . |
| 10 | When first started , can you can you what you what you felt about it , what you thought it was going to do ? |
| 11 | It was n't what you thought it was . |