Example sentences of "thought [pron] [be] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 2 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 3 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 4 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 5 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
| 6 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 7 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 8 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |