Example sentences of "[noun sg] thought [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred years of county council government seems a strange reason to create a long distance path , but North Yorkshire County Council thought it a good enough excuse . |
| 2 | That Emilia thought her a mere child revealed how little she understood ; but then Louisa herself had only limited comprehension of what remained dark and unspoken in this woman who studied her , almost coldly , summoning resolve . |
| 3 | She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends . |
| 4 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 5 | No doubt the woman thought him a concerned , doting husband . |
| 6 | Even his own father thought it a big weakness . |
| 7 | The headmaster thought him a prime example of naughtiness , but Herbert responded that if the staff were doing their job properly , little boys would not want to run away . |
| 8 | Burden thought him a weak womanish fool , despising his red eyes and the muscle that twitched in his cheek . |