Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] thought that " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the British came we thought that they would lift the Moslem yoke from off our backs . |
| 2 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 3 | When Nellie died we thought that the class would end but thanks to Elsie Simmonds with Kath Vigneux at the piano , we were able to carry on . |
| 4 | but er , under the nineteen forty four Act , Rentham Senior School then became Rentham Modern School and we thought we thought that the silly term to go to a school which in nineteen twenty six had been er |
| 5 | I wept at the loss to science caused by the slaughter of the mother , but soon dried my eyes as Lorraine Travis , the honorary secretary of the British Mule Society , said she thought that the foal in the photograph was a donkey and not a mule , and so did several of her knowledgeable friends . |
| 6 | Lesley Suttling , who manages the Jobcentre , said she thought that the fair , which was the first one it had staged , had been very successful . |
| 7 | Her softened tone said she thought that this was very sweet of him , if a little unnecessary … and suddenly Tom himself was standing behind her and draping a light hand around her bare shoulders . |
| 8 | Mr Abramson said he thought that if management or officers tried to suppress or control initiation rites , the rank and file would usually devise new ones . |
| 9 | Sir Michael Bishop , chief at Channel 4 , said he thought that Mr Major gave a very timely reminder that directors , more than anyone else , have to set an example on pay restraint . |
| 10 | He spoke of intellect and said he thought that the mind must be coloured with inspiration . |
| 11 | Dennis said he thought that class was ‘ out of date ’ , and he preferred to judge people by their intelligence . |
| 12 | Snodgrass , who had studied more sketches and impressions of the lost castles and palaces of Earth than he could remember , said he thought that nothing like Tara had ever existed anywhere in any world . |
| 13 | The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms . |
| 14 | Mr Foster said he thought that the Durham Service 's rate of 97 per cent of call-outs having an arrival time of less than 19 minutes was ‘ creditable ’ . |
| 15 | Eric Stephen said he thought that a of method getting people into the scheme was ‘ off the rails ’ and he called for a large input of help and direction while Andrew Macfarlane said that unless the end user guaranteed a premium farming leaders could ‘ forget FASL ’ . |
| 16 | Back at Gayflowers , the florists where one of the last sightings of James and the two boys was made , Eric Teare said he thought that one of the boys may have been in his shop . |
| 17 | He said he thought that under the current situation Right-wing Ministers like Michael Howard , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo were consistently being out-voted . |
| 18 | I mean them both , they wanted they thought that the only way you could get effective sociali socialism was through industrialization |