Example sentences of "[noun] thought they " in BNC.
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| 1 | One person said : ‘ Many clients thought they 'd get a slightly better deal through having a blind social worker because they thought I was having to pull out all the stops to prove that I was good and therefore they would get a spin-off . ’ |
| 2 | And when the Germans bust the tunnels wide open , both parties thought they had justified themselves . |
| 3 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 4 | ‘ People like Stock , Aitken & Waterman thought they 'd discovered a formula for pop music , and there is n't a formula . |
| 5 | The normally staid Independent cleared its front page for a graphic , reminiscent of a medieval woodcut , depicting all stages in the evolution of the Cosmos , while the Sun announced that ‘ We Find the Secret of the Creation ’ and showed a mysterious egg-shaped blob with the caption ‘ AMAZING … the universe with ripples shown in the patchy areas ’ , presumably in case the readers thought they were patches in the rippled areas . |
| 6 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |
| 7 | It was the sight Gloucestershire fans thought they 'd never see again — Syd Lawrence advancing purposefully down the wicket at Cheltenham . |
| 8 | In many countries the government stimulates such enterprises by providing some start-up capital , but the spokesman for our government came across very poorly , with totally negative comments to the effect that if inventors thought they could rely on the government for help , they were wrong . |
| 9 | Ginguene noted that in the period when Baroque style was current , and even after , Opéra soloists sang pretty freely for contexts , he specifies ‘ airs , monologues , duos , etc. ’ 'Singers thought they had the right to hurry or slow down , according to what the words seemed to demand or , more often , according to whim' The ‘ orchestra ’ had to accompany ‘ sometimes note for note , these uneven , shaky lines ’ . |
| 10 | Rovers thought they 'd taken the lead when Frazer Digby was forced to save on the line . |
| 11 | At first , Topaz thought they must have quarrelled but , as the stillness was never broken , she concluded it was yet another odd custom practised by the strange women who surrounded her . |
| 12 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 13 | They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers . |
| 14 | A century and a half ago , the canal owners of England thought they were in the business of owning canals . |
| 15 | In Chicago everyone knew Fingers but none of the promoters thought they were worth taking a risk on . |
| 16 | It seemed that people were often worse than even Jane thought they could be . |
| 17 | There were narrow high windows , far above them ; Fenella thought they would open on to rooms at a higher level than the ground . |
| 18 | Rachaela thought they must look a very normal family group : Emma the fond grandmother ; Rachaela the mother with her black-haired baby . |
| 19 | On 29th October , 21 days after the accident , some of the miners thought they could hear the sound of moaning and worked with renewed vigour . |
| 20 | FEW foreign brokers in South Korea thought they would see profits in 1992 , the year in which South Korea inched open its stockmarket to outside investors . |
| 21 | Another possibility is very late switching — which Tory canvassers thought they detected . |
| 22 | Deloittes thought that two categories of transaction should be included as sales , but Peats thought they should not be included . |
| 23 | The establishment thought they were crazy , quixotic , unrealistic , even ridiculous . |
| 24 | But Donald thought they could . |
| 25 | Thus , while the Allies thought they were embarking on an outflanking movement , they were in fact about to be attacked themselves . |
| 26 | ‘ Maurice thought they were Spaniards , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 27 | Mr thought they were nice though ! |
| 28 | This was not very difficult ; the Spanish still did not recognize other colonies in the Caribbean and the old rule of ‘ no peace beyond the line ’ went on , so that West Indian governments could still recruit on an official basis men who were committed to fighting against the Spanish whether the governments thought they were at war or not . |
| 29 | He insisted he had not abdicated , but what should he do know ? *q Before any advice could given , at least by the British the Shah and Soraya flew on to Rome — perhaps because King Faisal was embarrassed by his presence in Baghdad and perhaps because the Shah thought they would be sager and more comfortable in the Italian capital . |
| 30 | If Forest thought they were on their way up the table after beating Tranmere on Saturday that hope was frustrated . |