Example sentences of "[adj] she thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year the shop opened she hired a new dress designer , Jacqui Smale , fresh from the Royal College of Art , and told her how sensible she thought it was to wear uniform because this removed the agonies of planning what to wear each day as well as the decisions about accessories to go with the clothes . |
| 2 | Charming she thought , feeling acutely humiliated , especially as it drove home the fact that she 'd made little or no impact upon this man . |
| 3 | May had stepped out of routine only if relatives , more needy she thought but in Jack 's private opinion more selfish and feckless , had called on her help , or on account of their children , now grown up and living away from home . |
| 4 | Nails looked so strange she thought he was off his rocker . |
| 5 | He was glad she thought Eleanor pretty . |
| 6 | He was glad she thought he had been cool . |
| 7 | When she was younger she thought she knew what she was waiting for . |
| 8 | There was n't much she knew that Emmie did n't know , but the little she thought there was , was precious to her . |
| 9 | He was quite dishy she thought . |
| 10 | It was so cold she thought the mucus would freeze inside her nose and her brain congeal to a ridged knob of ice . |
| 11 | She was trembling , aflame with a happiness so great she thought she could never contain it as Rune discarded his own clothes with such rapidity and lack of care that two shirt buttons fell unheeded on to the carpet . |
| 12 | It was , I know , in Hertfordshire , but I am sure she thought I was lying and that she might have to deliver the child . |
| 13 | She mentioned Stepsons and how good she thought it , but Herman , not having read it , preferred to talk about Muriel Spark . |
| 14 | ‘ Promises ! ’ she exclaimed on a loving laugh , and thereafter put herself out to be the epitome of all she thought he would most dislike in a woman , shyly calling him darling whenever she had the chance . |
| 15 | Yeah , but that 's all she thought , she , she still did n't realise that after Gavin had gone that I got in me car , come home and seen you , did n't she know ? |
| 16 | Yeah and Annika Rice gets on the phone and first of all she thought oh , oh , I do n't think there 's gon na be an answer , I , I do n't think there 's gon na be anyone in , why are n't they watching us , why are n't they watching |
| 17 | Being alone was the worst thing ; when she was alone she thought about things and nearly all of them were bad . |
| 18 | At first she thought it was one of the old ones and she almost wiped it out . |
| 19 | Who at first she thought was not Jim . |
| 20 | At first she thought it was a burst of panic , which did n't surprise her , knowing what a coward she was . |
| 21 | At first she thought it was her eyes playing tricks ( did she have eyes ? ) , but then she recognized it : the glow cast by the Women 's spears . |
| 22 | At first she thought the monster had gone . |
| 23 | At first she thought it was the sea , but then she saw it was the pool of tears . |
| 24 | At first she thought she might take Leo into her confidence . |
| 25 | At first she thought Angel was coming to her bedroom , and her heart beat wildly with joy . |
| 26 | Someone was shaking her violently , shouting at her , and at first she thought it was part of her nightmare . |
| 27 | At first she thought it was like a watch-tower , because the roof sloped down to the tops of the two windows , making them the most important things . |
| 28 | At first she thought of wolves as she listened to the furtive movement in the woods to each side of the river . |
| 29 | At first she thought he was just fooling around , but he quickly turned vicious . |
| 30 | I hope Sue says it 's O.K. she thought . |