Example sentences of "[verb] thought [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd thought her a little too old for his own purposes , but always assumed she was there for the taking . |
| 2 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 3 | If she had seen the man I loved she would have thought him a figure of fantasy too . |
| 4 | They must have thought him a bit insensitive — running off like that , the day after … |
| 5 | I looked anxiously at him , partly to make sure the pleasure was really genuine ( it would have been unbearable if he had thought me an intruder ) and partly to see whether any of the magic was left . |
| 6 | I had thought her a goner ; now this — from the victim 's own lips . |
| 7 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
| 8 | Hitherto , she had thought him an unusually sensitive man . |
| 9 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 10 | She was in a mindless world where she had forgotten everything about why he was there , mindless that not half an hour ago she had thought him the most hateful of men when , abruptly , shatteringly , he suddenly stilled . |
| 11 | I had thought it a measure of their love and generosity that the nuns would make the suppliants laugh . |
| 12 | She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many . |
| 13 | Ever since first encountering Gavrilov at the Touraine Music Festival in the mid-1970s , I 've thought him a player of infinite potential , with a technique of which legends are made . |
| 14 | ‘ And you know , I 've never said this , although I 've thought it a lot : you 've always been kind to me all down the years . |
| 15 | Many have thought it an objectionable feature of utilitarianism , in its classic formulations , that pleasure and pain are supposedly set off against each other in this simple way . |