Example sentences of "thought him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bissett thought him the most brilliant man he had ever met . |
| 6 | 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 . |