Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] think [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . "
2 For dread — the old , quivering dread that she thought she had long left behind her — was settling in her bosom .
3 What , what what er level of income that he thought he needed .
4 Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love .
5 ‘ Sexual liberation ’ , the appearance of pornography seemed , again , to have a freedom and an ease that I thought I did n't have .
6 He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again .
7 ‘ Now , you said in your statement that you think you saw Mr Livesey standing on the pavement . ’
8 It was evident from the young man 's circumspect excitement that he thought he 'd got his first genuine schizophrenic hypochondriac .
9 Harry knew he should have felt indignation at this crude evidence of Charlie and Roy Mallender pulling strings , not to mention a certain satisfaction that they thought they needed to pull them , but all he could detect within himself was a sickening clutch of fear .
10 chasing back to the local paper to the approximate time that we think they died see if they report enough about them .
11 She caught her breath , a strange little movement in her face betraying the fact that she thought she had been tricked by him .
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