Example sentences of "thought be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 2 | A man who carried out a series of indiscriminate attacks on people he thought were students has been jailed for seven years . |
| 3 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 4 | As the deputy head commented rather ruefully : I 'm not sure what I thought were study skills was what they thought were study skills . |
| 5 | As the deputy head commented rather ruefully : I 'm not sure what I thought were study skills was what they thought were study skills . |
| 6 | A stunned silence fell upon the room as they focused their attention on what they thought was princess Voluptua . |
| 7 | I was just so frustrated by what I thought was Frank 's intransigence . |
| 8 | But what I thought was fever was the fire of existence , the passion to exist . |
| 9 | There was something the doctor could n't move on my chest — what he thought was consumption . |
| 10 | A handful of what he thought was heather thatch caught him in the face , but it was n't : a corn-stack had been pushed over and some of the netting had burst . |
| 11 | I was in bed until what I thought was midday today and turned out to be one o'clock . |
| 12 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 13 | I remember seeing his ball disappear into what I thought was sand dunes left , but he 'd hit a woman on the head and nearly killed her , and his ball had flown back 60 or 70 yards into the fairway . |
| 14 | When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route . |
| 15 | I recall at this period that I had a new second pilot by the name of Saltzgaber , who was first generation Canadian but German born , The target was Mannheim , When we got into the area we found that thick cloud covered what we thought was tie target , so we went down , But there was no way we were going to get under . |
| 16 | ‘ The impact on me ’ , recalls Pearce Marchbank , ‘ was blowing away all that love and peace shit which I thought was bollocks and complete pretence . |
| 17 | Jack and the vet ( who turned out to be an Irishman too ) drinking whiskey which they thought was brandy because I 'd put it into a brandy bottle … |
| 18 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 19 | His face screwed up into what Delaney thought was pain , but suddenly realised it was an attempt at a grin . |
| 20 | ‘ The nurse said I was very good company , which I thought was praise indeed for a guy who had just had a coronary thrombosis . |
| 21 | JOHN GRIFFITHS , trolley retrieval , East Filton : ‘ On holiday in New Zealand I ate a fish I thought was cod but it was slightly different . |
| 22 | There have also been at least five hospitalisations in the North-west recently , all people who became catatonic after taking what they thought was Ecstasy . |
| 23 | What he thought was mud was obviously explosive . ’ |