Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd always thought that the phrase ‘ going weak at the knees ’ was an over-used cliché with no reference to reality , yet that was exactly how she felt . |
| 2 | He 'd never thought that you could shiver in a desert , but it was late afternoon and the sun had fallen behind the hills and a chill wind cut across the graves . |
| 3 | Yeah well okay , well I have n't I mean , I I did I did actually think that Mrs Thatcher would lead us into the election . |
| 4 | Erm I had rather thought that that you had been given erm sufficient information already to perhaps make a straightforward simple strategic choice between between districts . |
| 5 | Sitting on the train she had suddenly thought that it was not worth it . |
| 6 | Phoebe was surprised ; she had somehow thought that after Rachel 's sterling conduct of the night before , she would now take charge , go on looking after them all , manage everything for them and leave her free to walk the road that she had to walk . |
| 7 | And she had somehow thought that he would have known that she could not go . |
| 8 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 9 | He had always thought that poets grossly overstated things when they talked of eyes like stars . |
| 10 | The Founders had always thought that they might get some pension-fund money . |
| 11 | Until then I had always thought that I could go home , but now I was n't sure . |
| 12 | He had always thought that the British were even more conservative than the Americans about what women were allowed to do . |
| 13 | Formerly executive assistant to the deputy director under Richard Helms , Marchetti told Barron 's he had always thought that ‘ the essence of the Interfor report was true … |
| 14 | Her father disapproved of him , and had said so , but she had always thought that he would come round to her point of view . |
| 15 | I had always thought that the Chittagong war was about land . |
| 16 | She had always thought that , and she had been involved with him , willy-nilly , over the house . |
| 17 | Rachel had always thought that dodgems were inappropriately named , and that day was no exception , for as they cruised round there were many more bumps than dodges , accompanied by screams and shrieks as the guitars throbbed louder than ever and a siren wailed above them , |
| 18 | Farrel had always thought that this was Ballater 's place . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ said McAllister , jumping up ; she liked walking and doing things rather than sitting about , even if she did enjoy knitting and plain sewing more than she had ever thought that she would . |
| 20 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
| 21 | She spoke in innocence of the fact that Knockglen had once thought that she herself might be the ideal child for them . |
| 22 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
| 23 | And she had also thought that was all it was , she acknowledged wearily . |
| 24 | She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her . |
| 25 | She had almost thought that she had recovered completely , until , once in Neil 's arms , the memory of the rape inflicted on her had struck her down . |
| 26 | In introducing primaries at the turn of the century , progressive reformers had naively thought that such arrangements would allow an enlightened electorate to make considered , responsible choices . |
| 27 | The woman , who had earlier thought that the male was her boyfriend , discovered that it was not . |
| 28 | The circumstances in which freedom might be won were clearly defined , and Alexei knew that he had sometimes thought that the lowest class in the Empire — the proles , who worked for pay — were no less enslaved and had perhaps fewer rights . |
| 29 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 30 | I had never thought that anybody could run that fast . |