Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but I thought his was the what 's name there . |
| 2 | He has denied he is on the verge of quitting — ‘ Im suprised if people thought I am the sort who takes my bat and ball home if I do nt get my way ’ . |
| 3 | I think they just thought I 'm the type of person who 'd go too far and you know do a joke like that , but I 'm not . |
| 4 | I thought I be the for the bingo . |
| 5 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I was a bird of paradise before , but that was in the flow of what never quite materialised — that new play ? |
| 7 | I had long hair , then my mum cut it off and it was really short , so I think everyone thought I was a boy anyway . |
| 8 | I always looked very young for my age and from his manner I suspected he thought I was a schoolgirl . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I was a goner , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I was a goner , Lady Luck was with me , ’ said Perrett . |
| 11 | I think he thought I was a nurse or hospital official . |
| 12 | I thought I was a gonner , ’ he said weakly and tried a smile which became a grimace . |
| 13 | ‘ The other kids at school thought I was a real wimp but they accepted me because I was always cheeky to the teachers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 16 | I thought I was a |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She thought I was a gardener , |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl . |
| 21 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 22 | In fact , at the time , I thought I was a real martyr . |
| 23 | She readily admits " Many people thought I was a bit forward . |
| 24 | I do n't think he thought I was a malai informer . |
| 25 | I thought I was a sixty-five-year-old woman with grey hair and a crepe neck . ’ |
| 26 | And of course he came to see my father , and my father thought I was a bit young . |
| 27 | And he thought I was a bit young . |
| 28 | They thought I was a child like Edmund … but the older girls … ’ |
| 29 | I thought I was a Hector and Paris combined . |
| 30 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |