Example sentences of "[verb] never thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is curious that in modern times the Cabinet , though it has always insisted on considering particular proposals for developments of policy and their cost , has never thought it necessary to review the development of expenditure under the Civil Estimates as a whole . |
| 2 | As one who has never thought that we have got much benefit from the European Community , I say that the right hon. Gentleman is following the path of his predecessor , which is , ’ Negotiate nothing but accept everything . ’ |
| 3 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 4 | He 'd never thought how she got the sacks out of her car . |
| 5 | Actually I 'd never thought of being an actress . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd never thought of that , ’ replied Mcduff . |
| 7 | I 'd never thought like that before . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 10 | I 'd never thought of marrying him , he was just a boyfriend , he did n't even seem all that attractive after I got pregnant . |
| 11 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 12 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I 'd never thought of it . |
| 14 | You did indeed Norman and I 'd never thought of it , but there we are . |
| 15 | The colours of the shadows — I 'd never thought how rich they are . |
| 16 | She 'd never thought her self-imposed assignment would be totally uncomplicated , but this encounter was fast becoming a nightmare ! |
| 17 | we 'd never thought to cast our shadows on it , |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd never thought of it that openly . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got to hand it to you , Angel , I 'd never thought of that technique , ’ said Bunny with genuine admiration . |
| 20 | Somehow , he had never thought that Hess had had this in him , he 'd never thought the flight would ever — to coin a phrase — get off the ground . |
| 21 | She 'd never thought she was cut out for the domestic life , but she was surprised to find just how satisfying and fulfilling it really was . |
| 22 | But er a thing my dad pointed out , and I 'd never thought , will the cylinder go through the trap ? |
| 23 | Well I , I 'd never thought of taking anything like that until she said , cos I , well you never pay , it 's all new to me , I have n't done it before and she said oh no she said we take these small tins of stuff with us and er make our sandwiches , cos there 's a supermarket I believe not far from there |
| 24 | really , oh no I 'd never thought that would work cos I thought that would |
| 25 | as if I had n't got enough on my plate with Tim throwing a mid-life crisis and Phil doing the disturbed adolescent bit-now if you please Suzanne comes in at three-thirty in the morning , and me lying there sick with worry , she having never thought to phone , and London with rapists on every street corner or so one 's told . |
| 26 | It hardly matters , given the man ; the essence , his core , a sly pederast ( Parker was a regular subscriber to magazines entitled such as Boy and Superboy , Kim and Pim ) ; he thought it best , and he felt safer ( it was his constant dread that the magazines — delivered from an English P.O. box number — should go adrift or burst in transit ) that as a cover-up he acted crude ; and he did it so well ( it might be a hateful zest for what he could not have ) that you would have never thought . |
| 27 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 28 | Then she blurted the thought out : ‘ D' you know I 've never thought of you as really English . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never thought of myself as avant-garde . |
| 30 | Remember , I 've never thought of myself as anything other than an amateur . |