Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] [be] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | James thought you were the most delicious creature he had ever seen . ’ |
2 | Honor thought she was the most exquisite girl she had ever seen and her heart sank lower than ever . |
3 | But when she smiled at me like that , I thought she was the most beautiful woman in England . |
4 | They were heavy and sparkled when she held them to the light , and she thought they were the most beautiful things she would ever own . |
5 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
6 | Grimma once said she thought it was the most astonishing thing in the world . ’ |
7 | But he had crossed the road — actually crossed the road — to tell her he thought it was the most interesting interview he had ever heard on the Parker Show . |
8 | I thought it was the most important time in Natasha 's life and I was n't there . |
9 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
10 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
11 | ‘ When I was little , I thought he was the most wonderful man in the whole world . |
12 | I thought he was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen certainly the most beautiful male . |
13 | This Greek myth tells us the story of Narcissus who thought he was the most beautiful young man in all of Ancient Greece . |