Example sentences of "thought [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But desirable though all this was , it never detracted from Verity Lambert 's basic belief that the underlying strength of the series lay in its four principal artists , all of whom she thought developed the most realistic inter-relationships ever forged in a science fiction series , spearheaded , of course , by William Hartnell 's magnetic interpretation of the Doctor . |
| 2 | I never thought to see the day , and all because I said I fiddled with wireless . |
| 3 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 4 | It is true that not every subject or application yielded work we thought matched the excellence we hoped for and had already found in some areas . |
| 5 | I actually enjoyed dark skies and rain which I always thought enhanced the colours . |
| 6 | An unlikely pairing but both did quite well the second half and 's experience and talking w we thought made the back four definitely stronger than in the last few weeks . |
| 7 | The bronze bust on a marble pedestal , found last autumn in excavations to extend the Roman site of Herculaneum towards the sea and thought to depict the young Bacchus , has been taken to Pompeii for restoration . |
| 8 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 9 | This is a well known if perhaps exaggerated feature thought to typify the production of larger and larger levels of output . |
| 10 | A survey carried out by the BBC indicates that before television broadcasting began , 69% of respondents thought televising the House of Commons ‘ a good idea ’ ; only 14% though it ‘ a bad idea ’ . |
| 11 | But this was a world from which women were largely excluded and few thought to question the relationship between the public world of politics and the private world of the family . |
| 12 | If he 'd shoot one person who challenged him , Marius Steen would do the same to anyone else he thought represented the same threat . |
| 13 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 14 | And I was er doing my part I thought to change the world and get everybody into the union so we could get , get better conditions for , for everybody and all this , more money anyhow . |
| 15 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 16 | When Hurley approved of Coleman 's find and hurriedly arranged for the CPFNS to buy King Edmondo for $80,000 , Talar pocketed the money , kissed Foofoo goodbye and disappeared into Lebanon before anybody thought to take the boat out on trial . |
| 17 | He swivelled and fired his laspistol towards the tattooed boy in case that one thought to exploit the distraction , burning his target 's hand so that the scum kid dropped his trophy . |
| 18 | Through Ed , who , she thought had the right contacts because he was a man , they went to the Roundhouse that night . |