Example sentences of "have thought [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only then someone destroyed my confidence , my ability to trust , and , looking at you now , I ca n't for the life of me see how I could possibly have thought myself in love with someone so shallow , so completely self-centred . ’ |
| 2 | I would have thought myself that all it needed was going boomph in and turn it and get the other one in . |
| 3 | That hard-fought win might have been deemed enough for the season , but his French owner was keen to run her little battler ( bred in France ) in the top French jumping event — in which he had finished second three years earlier — and so three months after the Gold Cup , when he might have thought himself to have earned a summer holiday , Mandarin was despatched to Paris . |
| 4 | The boy must have thought himself still dreaming , for he was completely unruffled by the presence of three strangers at his bedside . |
| 5 | Fletcher 's book contained a " devastating description of Russian manners and morals " , but was so antique that its scholarly translators must have thought themselves safe in making it accessible . |