Example sentences of "we thought the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thought the correct balance to that would be to look within yourself . |
| 2 | We thought the bumpy flight must have brought on a bout of air-sickness , but it was not so . |
| 3 | It came just when we thought the powerful combination of Horan and Jason Little had produced the try of the day , the latter making a typically powerful break to send Horan gliding between the posts with the Baa-Baas defence dismantled . |
| 4 | We were dependent and scared when we thought the powerful people had left us , were not attending to our needs , or were angry and cruel to us . |
| 5 | ‘ Not long ago , we thought the important thing was to remove industry from state control , not ownership , ’ says Mr Marton Tardos of the Free Democrats , Hungary 's free-market liberal party . |
| 6 | We wanted to see the place where we thought the 20th century had begun . |
| 7 | Mean time between failures on 3.5 ’ disk drives made by IBM Corp of 750,000 hours will have to get a lot nearer the 2m or more hours of the company 's manhole cover disks before it can entrust mainframe data to arrays of the little ones , Electronic News reports : that 's funny , we thought the whole idea of disk arrays was that one built sufficient redundancy into the array of cheap disks that no-one need worry about failures ever again . |
| 8 | We thought the green wickets would provide more movement off the seam , which early in the tour was largely so , but as the conditions dried out the wickets became more like our own . ’ |
| 9 | In practice , of course , we would not do so unless we thought the commercial circumstances warranted it . |
| 10 | And we thought the contact , some of us thought the actual crunch should be the contact , provide the issue with a person on the ground . |
| 11 | If more of us thought the same way , this country would n't be in such a mess . |