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 . |