Example sentences of "thought it [vb past] a [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 | None thought it deserved a higher chart placing . |
7 | The Audi that thought it had a clear run had to brake hard … |
8 | ( 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 . |
9 | Alice thought it sounded a hand-to-mouth existence . |
10 | 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 . |