" "Shoot, " said Tompkins later, "that's when I thought this thing is gonna be real.
"When I was first told about this I thought it was a joke, " he said.
As I say, when I first saw this story in The Guardian I thought it was just this sort of backbiting.
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When I first visited Brazil I thought this "reverso" must be a very important place.
That's what I thought when I first started investigating this intriguing story for the BBC seven years ago.
"When I moved to this area I thought it was safe - lots of professional people and families, " she says.
But 10 years ago, when I started this book, I thought to myself that there has to be an intriguing woman beneath all that.
Now when I first read all of this I thought there was a significant problem.
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So when we set out on this, I thought this is mission impossible.
When I saw this figure, my immediate thought was that perhaps the unemployment rate is higher in San Antonio and so some residents are looking to their credit cards to make ends meet.
When my fellow diners asked me what I thought about this transformation, I replied that we would be wise to focus on our behavior as opposed to our new technology.
So when it came to sports on this visit, I thought it would be better if we just watched.
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This thought came to me when I watched a commercial for a company that encouraged people to mail in their gold jewelry with the promise of an envelope with a fat check mailed back to them.
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"When I saw images of the hotel on fire, I thought this is the end, " Oberoi recalls.
When Groupon first entered China early this year, I really thought it would have a chance to succeed.
When I interviewed him earlier this season he told me he thought his own long injury lay-off had probably left him too far behind his rivals in the battle for forwards shirts.
When I started the Hurun and Forbes comparison, I thought of sharing this and counted again today.
"When I bowled the first over and it went for 13 I thought this wasn't too much fun but at least I could get my own back with my batting!"
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This is the thought that stays with me when I remember the hundreds of faces turned toward the rising sun.
It was the same gesture you might use to escort an old lady, and, when the next officer did this to me, that is what I thought it was.
When this location file was first discovered, I asked whether you thought it was cool or creepy.
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When I started the whole branding thing, I thought my fans could come to this great town, and back then it was so inexpensive.
By this I mean the simultaneous encouragement of parallel strands of thought even when they are incompatible with each other.
When I came across this campaign on Facebook to help US war veterans find jobs, I thought it quite the novel idea.
And this is why I turned bullish on the stock market in late 2008 when everybody thought the financial world was coming to an end.
And then when I was deluged with phone calls from pretty major museums in the country, I thought well hmm this is going to sell for way more than I expected.
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"But when Fiona on the phone screamed out 10 million at the top of her voice, I thought: 'This is exciting!'"
"When we first contacted Alan to let him know he had qualified for this unique offer, I think he thought it was a prank call, " said Virgin boss Richard Branson.
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