Example sentences of "[adv] thought [conj] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
| 2 | And she had somehow thought that he would have known that she could not go . |
| 3 | It is widely thought that it will , but that special protection will be given to historical portraits , textiles , arms and armour , and architectural and scientific drawings . |
| 4 | Socially reclusive , emotionally recessive — it might be asked whether Larkin had any life at all ; the student radicals at Hull who daubed denunciations of him in the university lavatories presumably thought that he should get one . ’ |
| 5 | The Founders had always thought that they might get some pension-fund money . |
| 6 | Her father disapproved of him , and had said so , but she had always thought that he would come round to her point of view . |
| 7 | ‘ I have always thought that I would like to be a fashion designer . |
| 8 | Until then I had always thought that I could go home , but now I was n't sure . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ said McAllister , jumping up ; she liked walking and doing things rather than sitting about , even if she did enjoy knitting and plain sewing more than she had ever thought that she would . |
| 10 | Blackberry clearly thought that he might be going to attack them and backed away . |
| 11 | Almost until the day of opening the new buildings were unnamed , and most people probably thought that it would continue to be the " Stockport Secondary School " . |
| 12 | They have suggested that the carcasses of animals which have died of either disease should not be buried in farm fields , as it is now thought that it may be possible for other livestock to become infected . |
| 13 | I have often thought that I should like to push through the House a simple single-clause Bill which would reduce death and injury at a stroke : it would be to insist that road traffic operated with signals in the same way as trains . |
| 14 | Had he really thought that I would play along ? |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend accept what is becoming obvious by now — that many of his hon. Friends , and Members in all parts of the House , have no wish or even thought that he should resign over this issue , or that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister should see fit to accept his resignation ? |
| 16 | He had never , before , seriously thought that she would get beyond the occasional sisterly peck on the cheek , or allowing him the privilege of listening to her troubles . |
| 17 | There can be no doubt that many of those polled recently thought that it would sound nicer — or would somehow tease the pollsters — to say that they were voting Labour , when that was not their intention . |
| 18 | He 'd never thought that you could shiver in a desert , but it was late afternoon and the sun had fallen behind the hills and a chill wind cut across the graves . |
| 19 | The agony was unimaginable ; she had never thought that there could be such pain in the world . |
| 20 | She had never thought that she would ever travel on such a thing , although she could not tell Rose that . |
| 21 | I had never thought that anybody could run that fast . |