Example sentences of "think had " in BNC.
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| 1 | EXPANSION IS a worthy label devoted solely to putting out the sort of soul music you might have thought had died with Philadelphia International in the early '80s . |
| 2 | I shudder to imagine what Picasso would have thought had he known that ‘ Guernica ’ would arrive in Spain under a monarchy , protected by the Guardia Civil , with Calvo Sotelo as prime minister and a priest as director of the Prado , his painting encased in a glass urn guarded day and night by machine-guns , and , years later , at the whim of an anti-Marxist Socialist government , in a bullet-proof fish tank . |
| 3 | Everything she had thought had been a lie and she looked carefully at the things she now possessed with new eyes . |
| 4 | Chatterton 's the only one I would have thought had the nerve , but then even if he had n't been crippled , he would n't have the skill . ’ |
| 5 | He started to realize that he was experiencing sensations from parts of his body which he had thought had ceased to function . |
| 6 | I 'd have thought had Oh mind you , have got a contract on bearing for for for . |
| 7 | He 'd not even thought had he ? |
| 8 | It 's like stumbling across a whole world that you thought had gone for ever . ’ |
| 9 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
| 10 | Asked who they thought had ‘ campaigned most impressively ’ , the great majority of voters cited Labour or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 11 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 12 | On the facts before it , which concerned a death from a lorry shedding its load , the court held that the police were wrong to arrest for manslaughter the person whom they thought had been driving the truck : there was a wide gap between a suspicion that somebody was driving a truck , and a suspicion that they were driving it recklessly . |
| 13 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 14 | A friend of mine lost a whole litter by feeding them a wild goose which he thought had died as a result of a collision with overhead power cables . |
| 15 | There is nothing like the thrill a week or two later of being able to get back into clothing that you thought had been discarded forever . |
| 16 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 17 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 18 | A FATHER yesterday held the hand of the daughter he thought had been killed in a plane crash . |
| 19 | A HEROIC six-year-old was reunited yesterday with the friend he thought had been killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 20 | A little after 0530 hours she was 45 miles ( 72km ) from the estuary , when she crossed the tracks of the Wolfe-Mowe destroyers , sent out earlier that night to sweep for mines that the Germans thought had been laid by the British force . |
| 21 | Those growling , nippy two-seaters that you thought had gone for ever ? |
| 22 | The paper was planned in enormous secrecy to run alongside the existing Sunday Mirror , which he thought had become ‘ a soft , ladies ' paper ’ . |
| 23 | Rostovtzeff identified the head he thought had been the top of this object as that of Commodus , and that it was associated with the cult of Commodus-Hercules . |
| 24 | Or what he thought had happened inside his head , for those at the hospital who were supposed to know told him the brain scan showed nothing untoward . |
| 25 | He said he thought had you behind him . |
| 26 | If they found a passage which they thought had a bearing on the issue in this case , that passage would have to be construed in the light of the proceedings as a whole . |
| 27 | His unsettling nightmares continued , and the John-Augustus struggle which he thought had been resolved in Buttermere began to re-emerge . |
| 28 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 29 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , our Lord Wittisham , whom you thought had met Sir Thomas before . ’ |