Example sentences of "[pron] think it [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone thinks it a great idea , ’ Mrs Bean said happily .
2 So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week .
3 I thought it a great waste of money .
4 Either way I thought it a nice gesture , and when I next caught his eye I smiled .
5 I just said I thought it a nice name .
6 As talking had helped Violet , the girl in Hope , I thought it a good idea to let him talk himself to sleep .
7 I thought it a good idea . ’
8 ‘ Because I thought it a good idea to have your home address , ’ he added , in the same tone .
9 I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him .
10 Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her .
11 I thought it an apt and correct description , with its connotations of inertia and lifelessness .
12 Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … .
13 I think it a good excuse to get away from his family .
14 I think it an excellent idea , ’ Athelstan murmured .
15 Do you think it a good idea coming into drama training direct from school ?
16 ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime .
17 For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there .
18 Ramsey made a speech which disconcerted the managers of the conference , who thought it a bad example of English insularity .
19 Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival .
20 ‘ If you think it a good play , all the better for you .
21 All the time Miss B. was rowing me I thought ‘ Dire was the twang of his silver bow ’ out of Iliad Six , and she said ‘ I 'm surprised you think it a smiling matter . ’
22 No one thinks it an important proposition that what promotes survival of the human species promotes survival of the human species .
23 We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it .
24 I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority .
25 But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them .
26 The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another .
27 He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter .
28 He thought it a fine idea , and presently excused himself — returning with a bottle of Mrs Westaway 's cowslip wine , in which to drink to the new venture .
29 First , he thought it an unspoken part of the 1931 bargain that MacDonald should not be discarded as soon as the immediate crisis was over .
30 Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen .
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