Example sentences of "had thought that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some senior managers had thought that a major change in BP Oil 's portfolio might solve some of the problems . |
| 2 | I was n't deceived , for Nour had been kind when I had been what he called ‘ good ’ , and I had thought that a new Nour had been born who was made for me , designed for all my needs and desires , and we would be unchangingly happy together until the end of time . |
| 3 | Alice had thought that a white-haired man was sitting in the chair next to her . |
| 4 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 5 | In the afternoon I had thought that the only important thing was that I was alive , now I wished that I was dead . |
| 6 | I had thought that the ghastly images of that awful day had been burned forever in the minds of anyone who saw them . |
| 7 | Perhaps they had thought that the first move should have come from their side . |
| 8 | When Ewen Mackay suggested that they had met before , I had thought that the other man had countered with a faintly wary look . |
| 9 | I had thought that the one good thing about being posted to a permanent , that is a pre-war , RAF Station , was that at least the Waaf quarters should consist of solid , brickbuilt barracks and not the Nissen huts which had been my home so far . |
| 10 | ‘ I had thought that the 1950s was a fairly stagnant , dull time which I could use as a sort of launch pad for the more interesting periods of post-Independence history . |