Example sentences of "she thought [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 2 | One said last week : ‘ She 's such a sweet person that one day when she thought we looked tired and hungry she ordered in pizzas . ’ |
| 3 | She thought we had the riff raff at our openings but she attracted just a much riff raff . |
| 4 | She 'd reverted to her glasses because she thought they made her look older and more respectable , somehow , the way people wanted a doctor to look . |
| 5 | As she uttered these words she thought they sounded snide and insinuating , sarcastic even , though she had not meant them like that . |
| 6 | Just when she thought they 'd got away from it , change and disruption had caught up with them again . |
| 7 | ‘ She thought they 'd better have something to drink so she got some sherry , then she was worried because she 's only got those little glasses you know , little tumblers , and she says they 're only for whisky . ’ |
| 8 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 9 | Mrs Hirst , who is the chairman of a local disabled charity group , believed these steps were important , but she thought they did not go far enough . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never bothered much about Blanche 's Prowler and that sort of thing — it did n't seem to matter who it was , only that she thought something existed — but you 've stirred something up — ’ |
| 11 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 12 | There was a difference of opinion what happened next — she thought it went in from there , I was convinced it hit him in the head and went in . |
| 13 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 14 | ‘ Sláinte , ’ she echoed , and hoped it meant what she thought it meant . |
| 15 | A friend of a friend had recently married through Dateline so she thought it seemed worth a try . |
| 16 | " When I sent photographs to my sister in Canada , she thought it looked beautiful . " |
| 17 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 18 | Or she thought she meant herself . |
| 19 | It was a comfort to see herself as she thought she looked . |
| 20 | She thought she looked better , but somehow naked . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not crackers , ’ she thought she heard him say next , through high-volume Madonna . |
| 22 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 23 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 24 | She could not be sure of it , but just after he entered , she thought she heard footsteps going softly away down the corridor . |
| 25 | As he bent to her , she thought she heard him murmur , ‘ Well , well , well . |
| 26 | As it did so , she thought she heard a high-pitched , giggling sort of sound : ‘ Wheee … wheee … ’ |
| 27 | The memory was so vivid that for a second she thought she heard the echo of the slam . |
| 28 | She thought she heard him praise the tinge of blood rising in her cheek , like the breast of chaffinches , and smell her skin like peach blossom and orange together . |
| 29 | She thought she heard the telephone being used , and the soft murmur of Julius 's voice . |
| 30 | It seemed an age before she thought she heard movement over to her left . |