Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adj] think that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time , I was inclined to think that the contrast was too great for any important exchange of ideas , and that Liebermann 's suggestion , despite its attraction , could not be taken very seriously . |
| 2 | All the same , she was shocked to think that the Collector might not survive . |
| 3 | The gradual transformation from squalor to cleanliness gave her satisfaction , and she was pleased to think that the others would be pleased too . |
| 4 | Although not exactly a religious person , she was pained to think that a senior member of the Church of England should get ( albeit by moonlight ) a good glimpse of her sexual organs in their present somewhat engorged state . |
| 5 | In the seventeenth century North America was so thinly populated that it was hard to think that a particular piece of land had scarcity value . |
| 6 | It was disconcerting to think that an acned nonenity had discovered and perhaps explored depths which he , in their daily intimacy , had n't even suspected . |