Example sentences of "[noun pl] thought [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the Germans bust the tunnels wide open , both parties thought they had justified themselves . |
| 2 | Until then , colleagues and readers thought she had been happily married to the man she always referred affectionately to as Proopsie . |
| 3 | Ginguene noted that in the period when Baroque style was current , and even after , Opéra soloists sang pretty freely for contexts , he specifies ‘ airs , monologues , duos , etc. ’ 'Singers thought they had the right to hurry or slow down , according to what the words seemed to demand or , more often , according to whim' The ‘ orchestra ’ had to accompany ‘ sometimes note for note , these uneven , shaky lines ’ . |
| 4 | Eubank took a comfortable unanimous decision — although I had him winning by only one round and plenty of ringsiders thought he had n't made it . |
| 5 | Rovers thought they 'd taken the lead when Frazer Digby was forced to save on the line . |
| 6 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 7 | Another possibility is very late switching — which Tory canvassers thought they detected . |
| 8 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
| 9 | What they found was there was actually sometimes substantial differences between what the managers thought they had communicated and what the subordinate thought they 'd received , okay ? |
| 10 | Many viewers thought she 'd used the famous Lawley charm to make him relax and talk about his childhood and family . |
| 11 | When the Community seemed to be their only option , the Greeks thought they had better be thoroughly Community-minded . |
| 12 | Pigeons thought they had found a regular roost on a Shrewsbury office block . |
| 13 | Somewhere below , among orchards and woods , lay that sequestered spot which the topographers thought they had found all those years ago . |
| 14 | Two witnesses thought they saw the aircraft 's nose rise slightly before they and many other witnesses saw the nose and left wing drop almost simultaneously . |
| 15 | Cos they said , one boy , a boy , a police officer the other times thought he saw a boy with a knife and he shot him . |
| 16 | Mark Archer in the Financial Times thought he had written ‘ a marvellous account of a much misunderstood age ’ . |
| 17 | Marenches thought he looked ravaged . |
| 18 | Some users thought it gave greater " precision " or " tied down their ideas . " |
| 19 | They were never sold , though the lawyers thought they had gone with the others . |
| 20 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 21 | There were , though , negative comments : 17% of respondents thought it looked extravagant and was too glossy . |
| 22 | What Lyle , Faldo twice and Woosnam can do in successive years has broken whatever invincibility the home players thought they had . |
| 23 | What Lyle , Faldo twice and Woosnam did in successive years has broken what ever invincibility the home players thought they had . |
| 24 | Despite their double handicap , Everton pulled themselves back to 3-2 with two Stuart Barlow goals before Sinton completed his treble two minutes from time , and Francis added : ‘ At 3-0 my players thought they 'd won it . |
| 25 | Incidentally , the Scottish players thought he got it right both times in that Gary Armstrong had not scored , but Turnbull had . |
| 26 | He 'd take whatever he wanted because he was a man , and in this country men thought they ruled supreme . |
| 27 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 28 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 29 | It made news when Victor Headley sold 10,000 copies of Yardie earlier this year and then went into hiding because some guys thought he knew too much about their business . |
| 30 | So naturally the police thought I 'd identified the wrong body as Uncle . ’ |