Example sentences of "think [adj] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't think that was necessarily the drift of the the House Builders Comment . |
2 | He thought that was why the plague had come . |
3 | ( If so , I thought that was just the problem that made it impossible to use Rocky … ) |
4 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
5 | I thought that was rather a lot . |
6 | ‘ I thought that was probably the way you wanted it to be . ’ |
7 | Yeah I was just looking at erm I thought that was quite a bit of resolute defending there from er Whitlow . |
8 | Before I read the book , I thought this was exactly the opposite of the truth . |
9 | Anyway , I thought this was strictly a business trip , ’ she added , a glint of mischief in her eyes . |
10 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
11 | I thought this was quite a plus actually , because we were able to get away with murder during the beginning , in some ways doing things that on paper looked very expensive but in reality balanced out over the year we were scheduled . ’ |
12 | He thought this was mainly a matter of size , but the preference holds in other places ( e.g. The Bristol Channel ) where the two barnacles are more evenly matched in this respect . |
13 | He asked me to resign , but I think that was just an excuse to get rid of me because he 's jealous of my work ! ’ she finished baldly , quite unable to dress up the truth . |