Example sentences of "thought be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought were a little bit uptight . |
| 2 | Well a thing called power handshakes , which I thought were the biggest load of gobbledegook until I watched them , a specific chat show host . |
| 3 | so that I thought was a nice tale |
| 4 | Churchill had a great time in leading for the Opposition and made what I thought was a splendid speech — but then he usually did . |
| 5 | I got there at what I thought was a reasonable hour , around midday . |
| 6 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 7 | My father earns too much money and he was not prepared to subsidise me to do what he thought was a ridiculous waste of time . ’ |
| 8 | Three faces lit up , beaming in upon what they thought was a crucial fact . |
| 9 | I introduced Rickie to McIllvanney who screwed his face into what he thought was a pleasant smile then , after exchanging an inanity or two , fled to his office . |
| 10 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
| 11 | The first bit of ‘ fighting ’ was after Wallace was brought down in the area for what I thought was a definate penalty . |
| 12 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 13 | ‘ I had worked out what I thought was a good routine for him and had his personal stunt man run through the scene for him , ’ said Cannutt . |
| 14 | They put me in touch with a Fellow of the Institute by the name of John Read — same name as the pilot of DZ642 , which I thought was a good omen . |
| 15 | People were on the streets being senselessly violent to the police , which I thought was a good thing at the time . |
| 16 | It can be extremely difficult to memorise colours correctly , and you may be very disappointed to realise that the shade of gilt wax that you thought was a perfect match in the shop actually bears no resemblance to the colour of the frame . |
| 17 | On his appointment , the wages were increased from £90,000 a year — which he thought was a poor salary — to £220,000 a year . |
| 18 | I later phoned the course and obtained a thorough briefing — or what I thought was a thorough briefing — on the available runway . |
| 19 | Once past the chalets Gazzer took what he thought was a short cut through the dunes . |
| 20 | A broker advised Mrs Harris to take what she thought was a short term loan secured on the house . |
| 21 | MY BOYFRIEND had what he thought was a fungal infection on his feet . |
| 22 | They performed their task conscientiously under solemn oath and they placed what they thought was an accurate valuation upon every pot and pan , every piece of furniture , each farm animal and even the manure . |
| 23 | Because after you listen to the evidence will be that these are professional officers doing a very difficult job and members of the public , members of the jury create very dated job they have the one objective I 've told you about to protect members of the public from further harm from what they thought was an armed criminal on the run . |
| 24 | We go to Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire now and Mrs Jennifer 's written to us er with a puzzle because she 's found what she thought was an interesting plant growing amongst a raspberry bush in her garden . |
| 25 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 26 | The President of the D T I chose to ignore what I thought was an excellent report from the special committee , which was headed by Dick . |
| 27 | He was buffeted from side to side , and swore in what Anne thought was an Australian accent . |
| 28 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |
| 29 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 30 | He had said what he thought was the decent thing to say , and had it chucked back at him . |