Example sentences of "[pers pn] was think [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking a lot of things , none of them connected with the business which had brought me . |
| 2 | Oh I was thinking the colour of it ! |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking the lady looked a mite like my boy , ’ said the yeoman , slowly , unperturbably , like a dray-horse picking its way through a bog . |
| 4 | Those were ambitious days when it was thought the Swindon Robins would go from strength to strength . |
| 5 | The government of course are getting capital receipt now , but sale we only expected to bring in some seven hundred million , it was thought the budget made for three or four days against the to be measure but there are only much more important arguments in the financial consideration in my opinion . |
| 6 | At first it was thought the men may have been stabbed with a broken pool cue . |
| 7 | There seems to be no particular reason why the event is triennial , apart from the fact that it was thought the pole should be inspected , repaired and repainted at intervals of no longer than three years . |
| 8 | It was thought the cause of the fire was a student leaving a bunsen burner on at the end of day . |
| 9 | It was thought the clash might be postponed after Scottish Under-21 international Salton , 20 , was badly injured in a car crash in which a woman was killed . |
| 10 | Though not an out-and-out cheapskate , he was thought the kind of man who would try to squeeze a shilling into a pound by whatever means . |