Example sentences of "thought it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it sixty something , in fact I thought , I was gon na say seventy seven |
| 2 | Before printing the essay I thought it safer to send it to Shaw . |
| 3 | ‘ Go safely , Floy , ’ whispered Fenella , who thought it safer not to say more , and then one of the stable hands brought the second horse forward and Floy found , as Snodgrass had , that it was actually quite easy to spring into the saddle and it was rather a safe feeling to be seated astride a horse like this . |
| 4 | I guess he thought it safer to ask me there over the noise of the engine and in the babble of conversation than in some quiet spot alone , where we might be bugged . |
| 5 | Ellen thought it safer not to go further into these particular matters . |
| 6 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 7 | Constance thought it extraordinary that this English-looking body could be topped off by such an Italian face . |
| 8 | Wickham thought it extraordinary how the frivolity of the journalists was spreading . |
| 9 | I thought it foolhardy and told my colleague John so . |
| 10 | He had feared that Hope might turn out to be one of those weary and self-righteous young men who thought it witty to mock the great old institutions . |
| 11 | The air branch officer thought it all ‘ very nebulous . |
| 12 | Peter thought it all out very carefully . |
| 13 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 14 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 15 | Goibniu thought it all looked very nice . |
| 16 | Desperately needing to justify her own actions , minimise her behaviour , she thought it all through again from the beginning until it made even less sense than it had before . |
| 17 | They thought it all anyway . |
| 18 | One evening , he took her into a side room at the theatre to emphasize just how bad and terrible and boring he thought it all was . |
| 19 | I thought it all looked lovely ! |
| 20 | of who thought it all up , the opening night |
| 21 | He and Sarah fell about laughing , especially when Nora said she thought it clever rather than funny . |
| 22 | They thought it unsatisfactory to say that moral qualities are distinguished by sense or feeling rather than by reason . |
| 23 | I thought it essential to set out a full precedent for both the agreement and lease , so that readers could see the complete documentation and how I propose to amend it . |
| 24 | I do n't want to sound a snob but I thought it vulgar . |
| 25 | As will be seen in the next chapter , when the republican wing under de Valera took over as the Fianna Fáil party in the 1930s , constitutional law was restructured , according to both a reformed republican ideology and current Roman social teaching , and in those areas where the high clergy thought it necessary . |
| 26 | For this reason she remained at Saint Cloud while the Ministers remained in Paris , since it was possible for them to consult the Regent if they thought it necessary . |
| 27 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 28 | So although Attlee 's cabinet of the post-war years was instrumental in promoting and drafting the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms , few thought it necessary or desirable that this guarantee of freedom should become part of English law . |
| 29 | Indeed , he had enjoyed his three score years and ten twice over before he thought it necessary to engage the regular services of a sports correspondent . |
| 30 | This surpassed Nebuchadnezzar 's original in at least one regard — whereas the Babylonian King of Kings thought it necessary to imprint his seal only every third brick used in the giant project , Saddam 's name was stamped on each brick laid in the restoration . |