Example sentences of "thought [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty looked at Nails and thought for one awful moment he was going to burst into tears . |
| 2 | Although a common form of procedure for research is being recommended here it should not be thought for one moment that a hard and fast programme is being suggested to which every research enquiry should conform . |
| 3 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
| 4 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 5 | Evidence suggests that there is a sizeable amount of foreign currency held in Poland — it is thought between one and two billion US dollars is currently banked with the financial institutions , but the undeclared amount almost certainly swells that figure many times over . |
| 6 | Prince Charles admitted as much : ‘ We 've thought of one or two . |
| 7 | So I hope you 've all thought of one word , right , if somebody else has said it before you you 've got ta think quick and think of something else . |
| 8 | ‘ I would have thought with 50,000 men training already under General Richardson to fight for Northern Ireland there was a place for a fine young Ulsterman like you . ’ |
| 9 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 10 | When opposition groups thought in terms of thousands of pounds to finance their case , the Board thought in millions . |
| 11 | Conceivably he may have thought in 1921–2 that previous peasant intransigence was now receiving its just reward . |
| 12 | It would have been tempting for an adviser to have thought in 1968 that a solus agreement involving the exclusive purchase of petrol was of sufficiently established commercial importance to fall within that class of cases to which Lord Wilberforce said the restraint of trade doctrine would not apply . |
| 13 | Describing conventional education as a ‘ conveyor belt ’ and noting ‘ the dullness of the eldest pupils compared with the brightness and self-sufficiency of the infants ’ , Denys Thompson of the Scrutiny group thought in 1932 that while education was ‘ very busy mass-producing interchangeable little components for the industrial machine ’ the concern of education ‘ should be to turn out ‘ misfits ’ ’ , not spare parts ' . |
| 14 | Sometimes mistaken for the name of a tribe of redskins , the word ‘ Hooliganism ’ established itself in Russia with such authority and incomprehensible rapidity that one observer thought in 1912 that it was ‘ as if it had long been expected , as if necessary for the filling of an empty space ’ . |
| 15 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 16 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 17 | A particular substance , tetra-hydro. iso-quinolone ( THIQ ) , was thought at one time to be the active chemical " cause " of addiction but this is no longer thought to be precise cause . |
| 18 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 19 | erm I go along with what erm Simon said about Paul , I 'm I thought at one time that they would go for Cox and him , to be perfectly honest , he 's absolutely right on what he said , and I 'm sure they 're relying on the fact that I believe Paul is going to be a home track and they 're going to pick a lot points up at home . |
| 20 | Sometimes a resident of one of those towns was thought by one of his fellow citizens to be particularly obnoxious or dangerous , even though it was not possible to prove anything against him in law . |
| 21 | Thought by one of the judges to make a good radio play . |
| 22 | In many transactions it is either necessary or thought by one of the parties to be commercially worthwhile to obtain consent for or approval of certain items before the business transfer is completed . |