Example sentences of "thought was the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had said what he thought was the decent thing to say , and had it chucked back at him . |
| 4 | But if a matter came to a head that withdrawing my labour was the only way to resolve it , that I thought was the only way to resolve it , I 'd go out and do it again . |
| 5 | He began to run in what he thought was the right direction , but he did n't recognise any of the buildings . |
| 6 | Erm asking for permission to put their names forward and from the , the few letters we had the , this was that we thought was the whitest knights in terms of Geography in terms of sex in terms of I would n't say intelligence , perhaps I should try to impress them ! |
| 7 | And what I thought was the prettiest sight in Hannah 's meadows was the Geranium sylvaticum , or hay sward , which is a beautiful blue with a tinge of violet . |
| 8 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |
| 9 | At 11.00 he found what he thought was the relevant passage in Vico . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure whoever was responsible at the time acted in what they thought was the best interests of the council . ’ |
| 11 | so then the very time he went in I you know , took did n't say anything at all I thought was the best thing . |
| 12 | That he could get all these to find out what he thought was the best policy in in your |
| 13 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 14 | Saturday night , I thought was the old saying , red sky at night , shepherds delight , old saying , you know |
| 15 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 16 | Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) . |