Example sentences of "thought it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't as bad as I thought it might be . |
| 2 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 3 | As will be seen in the next chapter , when the republican wing under de Valera took over as the Fianna Fáil party in the 1930s , constitutional law was restructured , according to both a reformed republican ideology and current Roman social teaching , and in those areas where the high clergy thought it necessary . |
| 4 | I always thought it was too early , he wrote , and now I see that it is much too late . |
| 5 | He repeated he thought it was finished as it was . |
| 6 | As an individual who worked for over 10 years in relatively senior positions for two of the ‘ major brewers ’ , I thought it ironic that here was one set of red tape specialists accusing another . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but I thought it must be some arch or something that everybody had to stoop to go through . |
| 8 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |
| 9 | At first Sergeant Bramble thought it was one of the latest Atco motor-mowers but it seemed to be coming from above them . |
| 10 | The fancier something looked , the better he thought it tasted . |
| 11 | Thought it was his due . |
| 12 | You had n't told your wife about it , so I thought it was probably bad news , and that it might have upset you enough to — well , to do something . |
| 13 | I thought it would be expected of me . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought it was you who wanted to see me . ’ |
| 15 | I was disappointed to find that accommodation was scarcer and more expensive than I thought it would be and the best that I could afford was a large first-floor room in a bedsitter house on Ladbroke Grove . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's slightly earlier than I thought it was but we 're OK still . ’ |
| 17 | He had never done one and always thought it a dangerous manoeuvre to execute . |
| 18 | He thought it was funny and who needs a Mary Poppins LP , a Beatles poster , a sequinned belt , anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought it was OK , ’ said Jay . |
| 20 | I thought it was a brown leaf , but it moved again , and I saw the object of my greatest dread , a toad . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you liked it here , I thought you thought it was fun living in England and sleeping with me . ’ |
| 22 | But I suppose I thought it was , like I was trying to tell him today , a gut feeling , being Irish . |
| 23 | As a professional carver I thought it only natural to get my hands on one of those new Arbortech Woodcarvers to add to my compendium of tools last year . |
| 24 | I had no specific use at the time , but I thought it would prove a handy addition to the workshop , and was delighted when my grandfather elected to purchase the tool for me . |
| 25 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 26 | There is , in fact , a good case for resisting the takeover of literature by culture , though it is not as strong as I once thought it was . |
| 27 | Car sales were uncomfortably large , and with them the July trade deficit ; but the Treasury thought it detected more comforting underlying trends . |
| 28 | SINCE we are in the middle of the International Coffee Organisation meeting -how do they pass a week without a visible result ? — I thought it appropriate to think about tea . |
| 29 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 30 | Suddenly sponsors appeared from everywhere , the sport thought it was Christmas and expanded out of control . |