Example sentences of "they thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 42% of them thought that economic liberals were best at handling the economy ( against 18% who thought social democrats were ) ; and 50% thought unions should be independent of social-democratic parties ( though 39% thought the opposite ) . |
| 2 | Quite a few of them thought that they could . |
| 3 | Most were unhappy — to the outside world they were just thought of as ‘ cabbages ’ , without thoughts or feelings , because that was how the people looking after them thought they were . |
| 4 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 5 | Rose reported in 1953 that 79 per cent of a sample of unemployed older men in Hull knew ‘ that the country was asking people to stay on at work after retiring age ’ and 74 per cent of them thought this a ‘ reasonable thing ’ ( Rose 1953 ) . |
| 6 | Thus , when Josias Nichols asked the parishioners of one parish in Kent ‘ whether it were possible for a man to live so uprightly that by well doing he might win heaven ’ , virtually all of them thought that this was so . |
| 7 | Twenty-three per cent of them thought that ‘ they could possibly be of some use with certain reservations ’ and 27 per cent of them considered them to be of no use at all . |
| 8 | Those who were familiar with them thought that they were unworkable , given the huge volume of other responsibilities on consultant staff , their lack of training in educational methods , and the absence of support services in most hospitals . |
| 9 | More of them thought that changes had occurred in administration , with more paperwork and more meetings being the most frequently mentioned aspects . |
| 10 | Hundreds of them thought they were dead , and fell down . |
| 11 | None of them thought of looking at the ricks . |
| 12 | THE UNDERTAKER 'S CLOTHES had been found on Tuesday evening , and if the news reached Fleet Street news editors , none of them thought it worth mentioning . |
| 13 | " Now then … in 1959 your husband came to the conclusion , and I am given to understand that you fully agreed , that it would be a sensible step for him to take employment for 15 months with a construction firm in Central America , in order to save the larger part of his salary Nenna protested that she had never exactly thought it sensible , it was the parting of lovers , which must always be senseless , but they 'd both of them thought that David , Panama , would be a wretched place to take small children to . |
| 14 | They had both of them thought that the climate of Panama would be bad for the racquets , although it turned out in the end that he could perfectly well have taken them with him . |
| 15 | " The sad thing is so many of them thought every white person is a Christian and of course they 're not , and a lot of them became disillusioned and wide open to communism , " said Eva . |
| 16 | I had no idea , really , what any of them thought or felt . |
| 17 | When questioned further very few of them thought of this God or power as a man , but either as a person without a body or as something like air or gas , and a few said they did not know or that there was no God . |
| 18 | I think it will stop them thought shit I 'm not bloody going to declare it , |
| 19 | But you would n't want to be without them thought would you ? |
| 20 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 21 | The government put this here after ‘ Forty-six because they wanted one spot of safety in a wilderness of hatred , and because they thought they might as well get some good of this country once they 'd ruined it . |
| 22 | Who , after all , would decline a chance to emigrate because they thought they might later qualify as a refugee ? |
| 23 | The Moroccan said that athletes might still take drugs if they thought being caught would mean only a temporary ban . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I was outraged they thought they could tell a bookseller what to do . |
| 25 | They thought they knew better , and they were , in turn , thought to know better . |
| 26 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
| 27 | They thought there was something wrong with me . |
| 28 | They said they had come to Britain because they did not need a visa and because they thought it was a free country . |
| 29 | He has no illusions about why he was chosen for the Fogg job : ‘ They thought I was someone who would n't mind the suffering involved — and someone who was cheap . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |