Example sentences of "[noun] think it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Howes thought it a prescient occasion . |
2 | Anabelle thought it a splendid treat , and drank it down at once . |
3 | Nails thought it a good idea . |
4 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
5 | Colt thought it a serious mistake by his target to have gone in person to the Syrian Embassy . |
6 | A petition can not be heard until at least fourteen days have elapsed since the petition was served on the debtor and the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement ( r 6.18(1) ) unless it appears that the debtor has absconded or the court thinks it a proper case for an expedited hearing , or the debtor consents ( r 6.18(2) ) . |
7 | She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends . |
8 | The party 's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year . |
9 | Simon Draper thought it a bad idea , but realised that argument was futile . |
10 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
11 | Even his own father thought it a big weakness . |
12 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
13 | The church historian Norman Sykes thought it a bad choice for the see , too party a man for a see which needed breadth of mind . |
14 | Gerhard thought it a charming example of English eccentricity and placed the quid tenderly in the mince-stained pocket of whatever Oxfam-reject he was wearing . |
15 | He said : ‘ The nurses thought it a huge joke . ’ |
16 | To begin with , the Gnomes thought it a fine idea to be part of the traditional Fidchell and Bith of the Bog-Hat told how the Wolfkings had played it during the Winter Solstice with solid gold figures studded with ivory and pearl , which the Gnomes always had the supplying of . |
17 | Not only did the Bishop think it a good idea but he would be very happy to preside . |
18 | Alice thought it a wonderful gesture , and for the remainder of the journey they discussed their joint wish to make Will and Martha Pritchett financially secure for the rest of their lives . |
19 | My colleagues thought it an impracticable plan and that it would put British manufacturers at a disadvantage — unless such measures could be introduced worldwide . |