Example sentences of "thought [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought to drive things you had to turn wheels and change gears and things ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | But desirable though all this was , it never detracted from Verity Lambert 's basic belief that the underlying strength of the series lay in its four principal artists , all of whom she thought developed the most realistic inter-relationships ever forged in a science fiction series , spearheaded , of course , by William Hartnell 's magnetic interpretation of the Doctor . |
| 3 | After half a year of their affair , she 'd begun to wonder , wallowing in his affection , how a man whose history had been one infidelity after another had mended his ways ; which thought led to the possibility that perhaps he had n't . |
| 4 | ‘ I never thought to see you again . |
| 5 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 6 | I never thought to see the day , and all because I said I fiddled with wireless . |
| 7 | ‘ I have seen a lot of things in my life , Elizabeth Burrows , but I never thought to see this . |
| 8 | ‘ I never thought to see a Tyrian at my table , but you 're very welcome , sir . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Dear me , I never thought to see such a peculiar thing . ’ |
| 10 | I never thought to see such nastiness , not even serving the Gruagach , I did n't . |
| 11 | " Poor devil ] I never thought to see him carried out of his lab feet first . |
| 12 | The epic duo turned and thought to see a Victorian high-wheeled hearse vanish into the storm . |
| 13 | You thought got a flush did n't you ? |
| 14 | But that was not how they saw themselves : by asserting the importance of lineage and kinship , and contrasting it with the ideology of their state , they thought to claim attachment to eternal values of universal worth . |
| 15 | ‘ A long thin shank , a long heel , a peculiar patella , a stronger tendon of Achilles or larger adrenalin glands ’ were some of the attributes thought to enable blacks to dominate certain disciplines ( Henderson , 1949 , p.362 ) . |
| 16 | I 'm really , really bored so I just thought seeing as I 'm on my own I 'd just tell you some slang erm for teenage languages . |
| 17 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 18 | She disliked the photograph of herself in shorts , which she thought made her look fat ; in fact she looked remarkably fit for a fifty-two-year-old . |
| 19 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 20 | Tests were being carried out on suspected drugs thought to include heroin , ecstasy , cocaine , LSD and cannabis . |
| 21 | Tip gave up his job as clubmaker in 1956 because he thought caddying would pay more . |
| 22 | It 's staying on the dual carriageway , well I went round Steven 's to see if he thought to tow it round mine cos the already been on my back once oh no he said I 've only just walked in from work I 'm having my tea then I 'm going to bed he said , there 's no way I 'm towing no motor for the he said , just f off ! |
| 23 | This collection of demands gave the widest scope for an agitation against the government on several issues thought to appeal to radical Liberals and Left Labour alike . |
| 24 | er thought given to the title of that . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ I never thought to enjoy a book about a foreign country so much ’ — she liked the expatriates , because they lived in the past . |
| 26 | The next time I went slowly past their table , refill coffee pot at the ready , the conversation was back to the journey , with Xanthe this time saying she basically thought horseracing boring and she would n't have come on this trip if her father had n't made her . |
| 27 | I thought helping to er increase me pension and was very good . |
| 28 | As in Gassendi and Locke , the ‘ new philosophy ’ was often anti-sceptical in intent , and its advocates were often not complete materialists , in that they genuinely thought to find room for religion , God , and the soul . |
| 29 | Even better I thought to find a society that automatically lets its existing investors know when a better deal becomes available . |
| 30 | I never thought to find in the same establishment a Gooseneck , a Ramsbum and a Blitherdick . ’ |