Example sentences of "think that [indef pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 2 | She later explained , ‘ I did not think that anyone was going to believe us as a family . |
| 3 | Just the flicker of a smile when he thought that nobody was looking ( but Jed had practised the deft glance in the mirror and he did n't miss much ) . |
| 4 | She thought that everything was composed of heat and corruption and water — that we live off death and water — and she resented her own blinding mortality . |
| 5 | ‘ Around It ’ , observes Williams , ‘ some people thought that someone was profiteering . |