Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No pilot thought thee worth his pains |
| 2 | I always thought thee a fly un . ’ |
| 3 | This might be in a direct indictment , as at the end of 147 , where after twelve lines describing the poet 's state of fever and madness ( ‘ frantic-mad with evermore unrest ’ ) , the couplet finally reveals the cause of his derangement : ‘ For I have sworn thee fair , and thought thee bright , /Who art as black as hell , as dark as night . ’ |
| 4 | For I have sworn thee fair , and thought thee bright , |
| 5 | I was also astounded at the amount of mail that arrived — too much really , because I just could not deal properly with it all and I was worried in case people thought me impolite . |
| 6 | Unlike everyone else he thought me quite deviant . |
| 7 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 8 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 9 | I thought of the children in the casbah with flies crawling on their eyes but I was afraid to mention this in case Flora thought me naive . |
| 10 | In the bar , I saw Mr Hobbs looking at me : I wondered if he thought me deranged . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought me last moments 'ad come , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I think he thought me a pretty unlikely applicant . |
| 13 | They all thought me secure , even if they did n't find Cliff Top exactly homey . |
| 14 | But the first time I did use it I thought me inside were on fire . |
| 15 | ‘ As far as I could judge , he thought me an incompetent idiot who ought to be minding his own business . |
| 16 | All I know is that once I was not , and then you thought me , and then I was . |
| 17 | You thought me dead these few weeks … |
| 18 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 19 | ‘ Do I thank you that yesterday you thought me a friend ? ’ he questioned drily , and for a moment she thought she caught a glimpse of yesterday 's charm in his look . |
| 20 | Observers still thought them to be in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 21 | The manager of the neighbouring pig farm could n't put a figure to his losses , but thought them considerable , especially in May and June , when fox cubs start hunting their own food . |
| 22 | There were dangers in this silence — Wilson well understood that the steady remittance of funds for the care of Oreste constituted a claim on him over and above that of natural parentage — but she thought them worth risking . |
| 23 | I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy . |
| 24 | Sixty-four per cent said they certainly believed psychic experiences existed and a further seventeen per cent thought them probable . |
| 25 | As long as they are remembered as such , it does not matter whether anyone else thought them worthwhile . |
| 26 | For those who are wondering why I have this set-up , the three were introduced at a small size when I thought them a male and two females ; and I am unwilling to upset a settled pair by unnecessarily removing the decor and setting two with a net ! |
| 27 | Kate had lost a husband and Charles a daughter — the only child of her father and he a widower — and I thought them more worthy of compassion . |
| 28 | They were what were then called ‘ buxom young women ’ and I thought them very pretty . |
| 29 | He thought them ‘ … more frightful than any in Monmouthshire or Derbyshire , especially Penigent ( sic ) Hill ! ’ |
| 30 | Marcelle thought them dreadful , but Marcelle was French , and even if she was attired soberly , she would still think no-one outside France could dress at all . |