Example sentences of "thought it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 2 | Mrs Kipling said when she put her children Gwynne , three , Sarah-Jayne , two , and nine-month-old Aaron to bed , Gwynne said he could smell something but she thought it was burning toast . |
| 3 | I said I thought it was that way but , you know , agreed with them . |
| 4 | I thought it was that wife . |
| 5 | At first Grainne thought it was that power was stealing over them , and then she thought that it was not power but strength , only that did not seem quite right either . |
| 6 | I thought it was marvellous opportunity to do it that way , each subject held in a bay and in strictly chronological order . |
| 7 | She thought it was good pay , but well earned . |
| 8 | But shoppers differed on whether they thought it was good news . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose he thought it was boring stuff about equal pay and women ’ , she says , ‘ I went berserk . |
| 10 | So she went with them and thought it was great fun . |
| 11 | You all thought it was great fun — going off for a hot weather holiday ! |
| 12 | He thought it was great fun to throw me about and wrestle with me and punch and kick me . |
| 13 | All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought it was equal opportunities in action . ’ |
| 15 | Some clearly thought it was all part of the night 's entertainment . |
| 16 | They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ . |
| 17 | We all thought it was all part of number one . |
| 18 | the boys says they all had a good time … one fell into the water but he thought it was excellent fun … |
| 19 | ‘ I thought you liked it here , I thought you thought it was fun living in England and sleeping with me . ’ |
| 20 | I thought it was another boy ! |
| 21 | I thought it was another book on Mediterranean cooking there somewhere |
| 22 | I thought it was last week ? |
| 23 | Oh it is a flap , I thought it was red tape on there . |
| 24 | And , I thought it was lovely pattern on there ! |
| 25 | ‘ I thought it was just bronchitis . ’ |
| 26 | I thought it was just hysteria . |
| 27 | The biographers of Paddy Mayne quote a veteran of the North African campaign : ‘ We thought it was tough dealing with extremes of heat . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought it was some weirdo and when I asked who was calling the voice yelled : ‘ It 's me ! ’ |
| 29 | At first I thought it was some pimps , the door literally came off its hinges . |
| 30 | Tabitha thought it was some kind of antenna ; then she realized it was an empty perch . |