Example sentences of "[pron] thought [that] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that a smacked bottom and being sent to bed very early that evening was hardly just reward for aping my elders . |
| 2 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 3 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 4 | I thought that the hon. Lady was there , too . |
| 5 | I thought that the hon. Member for Ogmore and other Labour Members would be anxious to await that judgment . |
| 6 | Mr. Wilson : I thought that the Hon. Gentleman , as a Government Whip , would have to maintain his position on the Bench . |
| 7 | I thought that the hon. Gentleman was a signatory to the report . |
| 8 | I thought that the hon. Gentleman had a sense of humour , but it appears not . |
| 9 | I thought that the hon. Gentleman , for the benefit of the hon. Lady and the House , was going to explain LMS . |
| 10 | Being English , she thought that a sure way of bestowing pleasure on strangers was to compliment them on their dogs . |
| 11 | If you thought that the golden age of rock'n'roll faded with the Fifties , think again ! |
| 12 | There were always some in the State Department who thought the policy might be pushed a little further : who thought that a unified Germany might become a big partner for America in the same way as is ( say some ) Japan . |
| 13 | Some rather nice experiments were carried out , perhaps in the Forties and Fifties , by Uray and Miller , who thought that the early atmosphere mainly contained methane , water and ammonia , mainly hydrogenated species which were thermodynamically stable , and they thought that perhaps if one put a discharge or if volcanic processes could actually inject energy into such a system and form the more complicated and more energetic molecules required for biology to actually get started . |
| 14 | Of course , in making my selection I am almost certainly falling into the same trap as those nineteenth-century scientists who thought that the anomalous orbit of Mercury was interesting but , in essence , a matter of little concern . |
| 15 | It was recognized in the Carolingian period by the author of the Life of Wulfram of Sens , who thought that the Frisian leader Radbod preferred to be with his ancestors in hell rather than alone in heaven . |
| 16 | The latter ‘ shared care ’ group included 15 patients who thought that the main decisions concerning their diabetes were made in general practice . |
| 17 | but er , under the nineteen forty four Act , Rentham Senior School then became Rentham Modern School and we thought we thought that the silly term to go to a school which in nineteen twenty six had been er |
| 18 | I mean them both , they wanted they thought that the only way you could get effective sociali socialism was through industrialization |
| 19 | As at Lloyd 's of London , they thought that the good days would always be with them and adjusted their pay , and their fees , to suit . |
| 20 | A further 14 per cent of pupils gave answers suggesting that they thought that the left hand end of the line represented either 0 or I. Whether this is due to a conceptual difficulty or a casual approach was not established . |
| 21 | The cards were described by the judge as a " manner of manufacture " because he thought that a punched card was analogous to a cam for controlling the cutting path of a lathe . |
| 22 | He thought that an unnecessary touch of Georgiades 's . |
| 23 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 24 | He thought that the only things of which we could be really certain were things of which we were directly aware , that is , things in our own minds . |
| 25 | Bill Gates , chairman of Microsoft Corp , told La Tribune that he was interested in developing software for digital high definition television , adding that he thought that the Japanese Muse system would fail since digital was the way forward . |
| 26 | Now the minister er er when in his speech earlier , er made the point that he thought that the proper interpretation in respect of all of these orders was a fairly wide one . |
| 27 | In particular he thought that the fundamental principles of Aristotle 's philosophy could provide a setting in which to express the revealed truths of Christian faith . |
| 28 | He thought that the Foreign Office should not be made the ‘ opportunity for an experiment on a new Gothic style ’ . |
| 29 | He thought that the human aura could interact with this force-field at such places . |