Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 2 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 3 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 4 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 5 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 6 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |