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Example sentences of "thought it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends .
2	‘ 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 … ‘
3	Nails thought it a good idea .
4	As talking had helped Violet , the girl in Hope , I thought it a good idea to let him talk himself to sleep .
5	My enterprising publishers , the same Little , Brown , thought it a good idea for me to present copies to Roman Catholic opinion makers .
6	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 .
7	I thought it a good idea . ’
8	‘ Because I thought it a good idea to have your home address , ’ he added , in the same tone .
9	He had never done one and always thought it a dangerous manoeuvre to execute .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	The party 's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year .
13	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 .
14	He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter .
15	I thought it a great waste of money .
16	They all thought it a great joke .
17	Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all .
18	Colt thought it a serious mistake by his target to have gone in person to the Syrian Embassy .
19	Anabelle thought it a splendid treat , and drank it down at once .
20	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 .
21	‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime .
22	I just said I thought it a nice name .
23	Either way I thought it a nice gesture , and when I next caught his eye I smiled .
24	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 .
25	He said : ‘ The nurses thought it a huge joke . ’
26	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 .
27	And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour .
28	Alice thought it a wonderful gesture , and for the remainder of the journey they discussed their joint wish to make Will and Martha Pritchett financially secure for the rest of their lives .
29	Always thought it a wicked waste of a good nurse when she chucked it to marry .
30	I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him .