Example sentences of "that [noun prp] thought [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He muttered a curse that Isabel thought it best to ignore . |
| 2 | The pleasure was so intense that Isabel thought she was going to swoon . |
| 3 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |
| 4 | It was not until a long time afterwards that Catriona thought she understood the reason Sarah seemed young , which was simple : she looked directly at everyone and let them look back at her . |
| 5 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 6 | So many people were interested in Sidacai 's fate that Alexei thought it was amazing they had not combined to petition Artai . |
| 7 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 8 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 9 | Correctly feeling that Miranda thought she was being tiresome , she added , ‘ What counts in this tiff — as you call it — is the principle of the thing . ’ |
| 10 | The most remarkable thing about this letter was that Knox thought it worthwhile making his appeal even although five days earlier the Lords of the Congregation had taken decisive action . |
| 11 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 12 | By treating her like a whore and raping her he has become the ‘ animal ’ that Blanche thought he was . |
| 13 | He paused dramatically , gazing so intently at each child below him that Sam thought he must be scanning their heads for lice . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was understandable that Gustave thought I was only jealous . |
| 15 | Dana stirred her tea , swirling it round and round so rapidly that Claudia thought she would wash it out of the cup . |
| 16 | There was a silence so heavy that Claudia thought it would shatter the phone , and when he spoke his voice was cold and remote . |
| 17 | Pamela was not , in our view , the minx that Fielding thought her . |
| 18 | Hey , do n't look so terrified , ’ she smiled , ‘ it 's only some letters and a little ornament that Gramps thought you might like . |
| 19 | It was so far from her usual style that Charles thought she must have undergone some violent change of personality . |
| 20 | Far more pertinent was the fact that Mendoros thought he could see a gap in a market about which he knew a great deal , and which he reckoned could best be filled from the UK . |
| 21 | When , calmer , he went to her room , Katelina was awake , and he was able to expend on her all that Diniz thought he was capable of . |
| 22 | His quarrel with the TUC was about the narrow vision that Millar thought they applied to education , confining themselves to practical day-to-day union matters and ignoring socialist principles . |