Example sentences of "think it a [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 | She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 … ‘ |
| 7 | Nails thought it a good idea . |
| 8 | As talking had helped Violet , the girl in Hope , I thought it a good idea to let him talk himself to sleep . |
| 9 | My enterprising publishers , the same Little , Brown , thought it a good idea for me to present copies to Roman Catholic opinion makers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought it a good idea . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Because I thought it a good idea to have your home address , ’ he added , in the same tone . |
| 13 | He had never done one and always thought it a dangerous manoeuvre to execute . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The party 's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 19 | I thought it a great waste of money . |
| 20 | They all thought it a great joke . |
| 21 | Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all . |
| 22 | Colt thought it a serious mistake by his target to have gone in person to the Syrian Embassy . |
| 23 | Anabelle thought it a splendid treat , and drank it down at once . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime . |
| 26 | I just said I thought it a nice name . |
| 27 | Either way I thought it a nice gesture , and when I next caught his eye I smiled . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ The nurses thought it a huge joke . ’ |
| 30 | Gerhard thought it a charming example of English eccentricity and placed the quid tenderly in the mince-stained pocket of whatever Oxfam-reject he was wearing . |