Example sentences of "thought it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 2 | Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it |
| 3 | I thought it seemed a funny thing to do . |
| 4 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 5 | thought , yeah , I thought it looked a nice colour , it does look , you know , it does look nice and shiny and |
| 6 | I had noticed the scaffolding placed around it the week before and thought it looked an odd sight , with the Chairman 's head just visible over the striped plastic sheeting . |
| 7 | None thought it deserved a higher chart placing . |
| 8 | The Audi that thought it had a clear run had to brake hard … |
| 9 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 10 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 11 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 12 | Alice thought it sounded a hand-to-mouth existence . |
| 13 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
| 14 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |