Example sentences of "those who thought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly 26 per cent of regular smokers thought their best friends would not mind them smoking , compared with 2 per cent of those who thought their best friends would mind . |
| 2 | Real fear came on those who thought they were abandoned . |
| 3 | Even among blue-collar workers , traditionally strong supporters of Democratic candidates , 62 per cent of those who thought they were worse off than four years previously voted for Reagan and 30 per cent for Carter . |
| 4 | But Harry hurried on , consoling himself with the thought that he still retained one secret advantage over those who thought they had the better of him . |
| 5 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 6 | Those who thought him in error became the co-traitors of his personal mythology , the Bloomsbury ‘ mice ’ , who would be ‘ cleaned up ’ by the truncheons and boots of the new heroes , once the Fascist revolution had been accomplished in England . |
| 7 | The ‘ expert ’ opinions of my first sled varied between those who thought that the joints and lashings were too loose , and those who thought them too tight ! |
| 8 | Britain was one of those who thought it went too far . |
| 9 | Those who thought it would fall to pieces within 5000 miles were confounded , even if those who hoped it would sail the test with BMW-like dependability could hardly crow about its reliability record . |
| 10 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 11 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 12 | Those who thought I was only interested in money were wrong . |
| 13 | What did he think of those who thought he was passed it . |
| 14 | But most of those who thought there was a material reality were not uncompromising materialists of a Hobbesian sort . |
| 15 | Where had that stupid slogan come from , the facile answer of those who thought there were easy solutions to all the world 's problems ? |