Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] think [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she knew all the same that no-one had thought she might leave the tent which seemed warm now and dense with the presence of Antoine — Only he 's dead now , is n't he ? |
| 2 | The only other thing that I 've thought I might do one day is do a country album . |
| 3 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 4 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 5 | That same night she had gone to Yeoman 's Lane for the last time , accepting without pain that she had thought their love was untouchable , yet now it was as if it had never been . |
| 6 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 7 | The staff nurse said that she had thought it strange that this statement should have been volunteered ‘ out of the blue ’ moments after her mother had arrived . |
| 8 | ( I learned later that she had thought I had put her into some kind of charitable institution — a sort of workhouse . |
| 9 | Mrs. Steed 's evidence was not , however , that she had thought she was signing a document of some different character from that which in fact she had signed . |
| 10 | Forgotten that she had thought she had seen someone moving around in the darkness . |
| 11 | That he very rarely said he loved you rang a warning bell , as did the fact that you appeared to think he spent his time alone if he was n't with you . |
| 12 | The Spartans subsequently felt guilt at having started the war : there is a revealing sentence in Thucydides ( vii.18 ) which says that they came to think they had lost the war of 431–421 because ‘ they themselves had sinned ’ when the Thebans attacked Plataia when the ‘ libations ’ were still in force . |
| 13 | Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support . |
| 14 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 15 | He confirmed that he did think it would be for the best if I dropped out of family life , and in my heart , I knew he was right . |
| 16 | When he refused a peerage the reason he gave was that he preferred to think his country owed him something . |