Example sentences of "[pron] think it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone thinks it a great idea , ’ Mrs Bean said happily . |
| 2 | I thought it a great waste of money . |
| 3 | I just said I thought it a nice name . |
| 4 | Either way I thought it a nice gesture , and when I next caught his eye I smiled . |
| 5 | As talking had helped Violet , the girl in Hope , I thought it a good idea to let him talk himself to sleep . |
| 6 | I thought it a good idea . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Because I thought it a good idea to have your home address , ’ he added , in the same tone . |
| 8 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 9 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 10 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 11 | I think it a good excuse to get away from his family . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it an excellent idea , ’ Athelstan murmured . |
| 13 | Do you think it a good idea coming into drama training direct from school ? |
| 14 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime . |
| 15 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 16 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 17 | Ramsey made a speech which disconcerted the managers of the conference , who thought it a bad example of English insularity . |
| 18 | ‘ If you think it a good play , all the better for you . |
| 19 | All the time Miss B. was rowing me I thought ‘ Dire was the twang of his silver bow ’ out of Iliad Six , and she said ‘ I 'm surprised you think it a smiling matter . ’ |
| 20 | No one thinks it an important proposition that what promotes survival of the human species promotes survival of the human species . |
| 21 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |
| 22 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 23 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 24 | The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another . |
| 25 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 26 | He thought it a fine idea , and presently excused himself — returning with a bottle of Mrs Westaway 's cowslip wine , in which to drink to the new venture . |
| 27 | First , he thought it an unspoken part of the 1931 bargain that MacDonald should not be discarded as soon as the immediate crisis was over . |
| 28 | Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen . |
| 29 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 30 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |