Example sentences of "[noun] thought [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One person said : ‘ Many clients thought they 'd get a slightly better deal through having a blind social worker because they thought I was having to pull out all the stops to prove that I was good and therefore they would get a spin-off . ’ |
| 2 | The newsmen thought he was going to talk about the club 's prospects for the new soccer season . |
| 3 | The US State Department thought it time to look closely into the causes and extent of British criticism . |
| 4 | And when the Germans bust the tunnels wide open , both parties thought they had justified themselves . |
| 5 | Fourthly , it was pointed out sensibly in Littlewoods by both Lord Denning MR and Megaw LJ that a clause made " inter rusticos " ( ie without legal help on either side ) can be properly construed in the light of the way in which both parties thought it would be likely to be interpreted . |
| 6 | All of them were aware of their role and did n't seem to mind too much that their peers thought them to be crazy . |
| 7 | However , it should be remembered that , at the time , most of his academic peers thought him quite mad ! |
| 8 | An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things . |
| 9 | A woman in her mid-fifties emerged from it and , despite the fact that hazel eyes smiled at her , Lucy thought she looked rather pale , almost as if she were feeling unwell . |
| 10 | But there was no answering smile on Silas 's face , and , watching him , Lucy thought she detected the suspicion of a grim line about his mobile mouth . |
| 11 | Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance . |
| 12 | Several times , Bernice thought she was getting the better of him , only to realise that he was toying with her expectations and reactions . |
| 13 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 14 | A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it . |
| 15 | And although three quarters of our teenagers thought it best to wait until 16 before losing their virginity , the younger boys say they feel under pressure to have sex and reckoned they 've got even less information to equip them for a sex life . |
| 16 | Later that evening , as the Churchill faction talked and drank and lived it out again , Bob Boothby claimed the honour , although Edward thought he had seen Leo Amery mouth the words . |
| 17 | I think David thought he was the artist and he knew what he wanted to do — which I think is actually true — the artist basically does know what he wants to do — but I think the manager should just be there to sort out the finance and try to keep you on a the straight and narrow . |
| 18 | Keynes thought it resembled a Gruyère cheese — holes without the surrounding cheese ! |
| 19 | Britta thought it was unhealthy . |
| 20 | Dot thought it must be tea . |
| 21 | Dot thought it was the loveliest book she 'd ever seen . |
| 22 | After a day on the track with Formula One driver Martin Brundle , Neil Lyndon thought he knew all about driving a racing car . |
| 23 | A mini psychopath , I thought , and maybe not so mini , at that , if Xanthe thought he should be in jail . |
| 24 | At least that was what Steven thought he had shouted ; it might have been a different number , but it was something like that . |
| 25 | One critic thought it ironic that this building ‘ of which the aim was so obviously beauty , should have achieved so startling an ugliness ’ , but after more than a century Swanage would hardly seem the same place without it . |
| 26 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 27 | Secord thought it was good , it was trumping them . |
| 28 | Jinkwa thought he saw the parasite raise its weapon in a puny gesture of defiance . |
| 29 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 30 | ‘ People like Stock , Aitken & Waterman thought they 'd discovered a formula for pop music , and there is n't a formula . |