Example sentences of "[adv] think it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I did not think it a good book , but I shall always be grateful to it . |
2 | I know and you know that Hardy did not think it a sad poem — just a comment and a summing up . |
3 | I mean I would n't ever think it a good idea to encourage women to leave the home if they thought that their job was in there looking after small children , but it 's very obvious nowadays that a very large number of women do n't want to in the home any more . |
4 | Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics . |
5 | He had never done one and always thought it a dangerous manoeuvre to execute . |
6 | Always thought it a wicked waste of a good nurse when she chucked it to marry . |
7 | A sudden dedication to a foreign influence like Hegel or Derrida , brief but intense , is about the only thing there is that can cause the British to lose a sense of humour or a sense of proportion , and during the first London production of Waiting for Godot in 1955 I was reproached by strangers seated around me for laughing , though I still think it a funny play . |
8 | They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire . |
9 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |