Example sentences of "think it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics .
2 Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened .
3 She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many .
4 Many have thought it an objectionable feature of utilitarianism , in its classic formulations , that pleasure and pain are supposedly set off against each other in this simple way .
5 In fact , many felt its power had become too great and thought it no bad thing when it was forced to close , I believe in 1932 or 1933 .
6 She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends .
7 ‘ I — we — thought it a good idea at the time , with the late closing and it so hard to get people off the premises — and all the cleaning up to be done afterwards … ‘
8 Nails thought it a good idea .
9 As talking had helped Violet , the girl in Hope , I thought it a good idea to let him talk himself to sleep .
10 My enterprising publishers , the same Little , Brown , thought it a good idea for me to present copies to Roman Catholic opinion makers .
11 We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it .
12 I thought it a good idea . ’
13 ‘ Because I thought it a good idea to have your home address , ’ he added , in the same tone .
14 He had never done one and always thought it a dangerous manoeuvre to execute .
15 It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 .
16 Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way .
17 The party 's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year .
18 They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire .
19 He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter .
20 I thought it a great waste of money .
21 They all thought it a great joke .
22 Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all .
23 Colt thought it a serious mistake by his target to have gone in person to the Syrian Embassy .
24 Anabelle thought it a splendid treat , and drank it down at once .
25 But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them .
26 ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime .
27 I just said I thought it a nice name .
28 Either way I thought it a nice gesture , and when I next caught his eye I smiled .
29 The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another .
30 He said : ‘ The nurses thought it a huge joke . ’
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