Example sentences of "[Wh det] the [noun] thought [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Combining these two traits , Verity Lambert felt , would give the Doctor the essential dichotomy between the imperious master of his ship , which the Doctor thought he was , and the quirky , unpredictable old salt , which he truly was . |
| 2 | Somewhere below , among orchards and woods , lay that sequestered spot which the topographers thought they had found all those years ago . |
| 3 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 4 | In nineteen eighty eight and eighty nine we spent ninety eight point two nine percent and in eighty nine ninety , ninety seven point one four percent of what the government thought we need we actually underspent in their terms . |
| 5 | Our pick-up point for transport to Bletchley was on the Embankment , near the Swan Hotel , and ‘ pick-up point ’ is just what the Americans thought it was ! |
| 6 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 7 | Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant . |
| 8 | What they found was there was actually sometimes substantial differences between what the managers thought they had communicated and what the subordinate thought they 'd received , okay ? |
| 9 | Suggested Compromises : The Purchaser to have the right of rescission for breaches which are ‘ so material ’ that they effectively change the nature of what the Purchaser thought it was acquiring ; any such compromise should ideally specify the measure of materiality either by reference to a specific amount of money or a percentage of the value of the business to be acquired although this may be felt to be impossible to quantify ; or |