Example sentences of "had think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if Dáil members had thought otherwise , it must by now be clear that the ethos of the Irish Republic was still one in which it was impolitic to be in conflict with the church . |
| 2 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 3 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 4 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 5 | No one had thought to specify how many shirt buttons could be undone and fear was now patently manifest that some uncontrollable disorder would be let loose should more than one button be opened to reveal ‘ chest hair , or even a medallion ’ . |
| 6 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 7 | They had not crushed the ashes in the hearth , the ink would still show up the names , if that sheriff had thought to look ! |
| 8 | He had thought that the synagogue was their house of purification . |
| 9 | He had thought that their businesses were realms of feudal benevolence . |
| 10 | I must have wandered off course more than I had thought . |
| 11 | But it did blunt the tool quite easily and sharpening was needed more often that I had thought likely , though this walnut was extremely hard . |
| 12 | But government figures published this summer revealed that there were 93,720 teachers in this category , 5,720 more than it had thought . |
| 13 | Scientists had thought weather patterns would reduce the size of the hole over the next few years . |
| 14 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 15 | Everyone had thought that only special chemical scissors , strips of protein called enzymes , could snip out the junk . |
| 16 | However , this was definitely secondary to the manpower approach , though again Dalton liked to contrast actual levels of expenditure with the £500 million which the Coalition had thought likely to be necessary in peacetime , pointing out in early 1947 that the current level of expenditure at over £800 million meant 2s. in the pound extra on the income tax in comparison with the Coalition figure . |
| 17 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 18 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 19 | She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife . |
| 20 | Another tangled virgin called on her for help against a dragon , called on her though she had thought that her time was past and the dragons had all departed . |
| 21 | At first she had thought with a shock of fear that it was old age , that old age was like silicon , water-soluble , it flowed into you and as you dried out , it hardened , recasting you in blurred shapes and muted tones . |
| 22 | She had thought that if her mother had learned to consent , to let go , to be filled , then Phoebe 's passivity and disinterest would drop off like a cloak and she too could be naked with joy and love . |
| 23 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 24 | Jack often thought he was n't quick enough to match Charlie 's easy repartee , but now he had thought of something that would make his friend smile . |
| 25 | Just for a split second Mrs. Fanshawe had thought it was . |
| 26 | This has to be a mistake , he had thought , as they were directed ever closer to the front . |
| 27 | He had thought Diana would quietly fit into his routine . |
| 28 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 29 | He had thought of experimenting with three different subjects — maths , foreign languages and chess — but his financial circumstances in those days did not make it possible . |
| 30 | Neville Southall , whose saves had prevented Forest running away with the game in the first half , gathered the ball and started to think about clearing it but in the view of the referee , George Tyson , he had thought too long . |