Example sentences of "thought him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She agreed with the Bishop of Lincoln rather than with the students of Lincoln , for she thought him a disaster in the pulpit ; blinking , and articulating his words with difficulty , and often using the peculiar phrase ‘ paradoxic ally speaking ’ . |
| 2 | Burden thought him a weak womanish fool , despising his red eyes and the muscle that twitched in his cheek . |
| 3 | They thought him a genuine socialist who had tackled the capitalists — something the SPD had failed to do , and had hopes for a brighter future when the war was won . |
| 4 | I admired bearded Jack 's oil paintings of local scenes , and thought him a far better artist than Jim Teck . |
| 5 | He was an Afghan who bemused Robert Graves , and in this book must be regarded as a bee which escaped from that capacious bonnet ; his Kabul cousins thought him a figure of pure comedy . |
| 6 | She thought him a most responsible and sensitive young man and then reflected that for all his fooling around , it probably masked his unhappiness and disappointment over his ‘ father ’ . |
| 7 | The headmaster thought him a prime example of naughtiness , but Herbert responded that if the staff were doing their job properly , little boys would not want to run away . |
| 8 | The doctor thought him a rotter . |
| 9 | I expect Alice Fell — the real one — thought him a pompous busybody , but she was probably used to being ordered about by ‘ men of ardent humanity ’ . ) |
| 10 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 11 | Anabelle had never seen a turtle before , and thought him a kindly creature . |
| 12 | A ducal esquire by 1475 , when the London mercers thought him a man worth cultivating , he was also the duke 's feoffee and after Richard 's accession became treasurer of the royal household . |
| 13 | Somebody asked why the Bright Palace was no longer bright , and Dorrainge said , ‘ Because of Medoc 's dark enchantments of course , ’ and looked at the soldier as though he thought him a complete fool . |
| 14 | I enjoyed talking to him , and thought him a very good interviewer — and that makes all the difference . |
| 15 | On the two occasions he came here , I thought him a charming youth . |
| 16 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 17 | No doubt the woman thought him a concerned , doting husband . |
| 18 | A ducal esquire by 1475 , when the London mercers thought him a man worth cultivating , he was also the duke 's feoffee and after Richard 's accession became treasurer of the royal household . |
| 19 | The ambassador and his wife were very pleasant , and as the Ambassador stood up and made a very impressive speech in Chinese , I thought him a distinct improvement on his confrère in the Hague ! |
| 20 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 21 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 22 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 23 | Although he was wearing an old check shirt and dirty cricket flannels that stopped above his ankles , Constance thought him the most elegantly handsome man she had ever seen . |
| 24 | Bissett thought him the most brilliant man he had ever met . |
| 25 | All she had learned was that he was a man whose wife thought him the apple of her eye and who had tastes in Italian painting that were remarkably similar to her own . |
| 26 | He was supposed to take the advice of Archbishop Lang of Canterbury but he distrusted everything Lang said because he thought him an appeaser of Hitler . |