Example sentences of "who thought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memorial appeared 50 years later through the hard work of a local newspaper reporter who thought something ought to be done . |
| 2 | It was being thrown into the presence of older people who thought we were bright enough to appreciate M. R. James at 11 , act in Shakespeare at 12 , sing Handel and Haydn at 13 . |
| 3 | Anyway , she went out to get some text books , so there was a few of us who thought we 'd have a bit of a laugh , do something to catch her out . |
| 4 | Far too many of those who regularly spoke in those debates were a stage army who thought we should never have joined the Community in the first place . |
| 5 | The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort . |
| 6 | He was also aware that he was clever , and rather enjoyed trying to bamboozle journalists who thought they might score off him . |
| 7 | When a sound start was then followed by a sparkling 80 from Richards , a classical 84 from Hooper and a thumping 72 from Marshall , with even Ambrose making 43 , we knew exactly what was what , and when Richards declared on the fourth evening at 448 for 9 , leaving England with a day plus 51 overs to survive , there were probably not many people who thought they would make it . |
| 8 | They used courts for private cases : divorced wives whose maintenance had not been paid , and heirs who thought they had been cheated , appear in the earliest court records ; they were plaintiffs and claimants whose position was weak in the traditional system . |
| 9 | The ‘ New Style ’ Calendar was adopted in Britain in 1752 but not without some opposition from some who thought they were losing several days of their life . |
| 10 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 11 | There were many women who thought they knew him intimately , and each believed that she alone could unravel the knot of his heart . |
| 12 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 13 | He named just six of his favourite Head Girls and awarded them shares , which must have surprised others who thought they were special in his affections . |
| 14 | She did not approve of amateurs , especially amateurs who thought they could step into the shoes of professional models . |
| 15 | Real fear came on those who thought they were abandoned . |
| 16 | They were introduced to one another by a woman friend who thought they should get on well in London as Margaret came of a better family and knew the people , and Ivy had the money . |
| 17 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 18 | Time after time , ministers who thought they knew their churches inside-out discover new factors relating to their growth or lack of it , of which they would have remained blissfully unaware if they had not taken the trouble to investigate . |
| 19 | Det Insp Crowther also urged anyone who thought they might recognise the attacker from the description to contact Colchester police station on ( 0206 ) 762212 or call the Essex Crimestoppers line on ( 0245 ) 252252 . |
| 20 | The Royal African Company came under criticism from the West India sugar planters , who clamoured for more slaves to be supplied without explaining how they would be paid for , and also from other English merchants who thought they could do a better job of supplying slaves . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Like many such groups , they have acquired a patina of legend : during the nineteenth century there were those who referred to them as Druid stones , others who thought they were of Roman origin , and yet others who asserted they must be the gravestones of Danish invaders vanquished by Banquo and Macbeth . |
| 23 | This general argument was in the interests of large users of telecommunications who thought they were subsidizing small and local users . |
| 24 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 25 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 26 | After witnessing their performance I am not sure those supporters who thought they spotted four or five Danish internationals in the side ( probably on a hiking tour of Britain ) , were mistaken . |
| 27 | Victorian scientists were devoted to facts , and even more were the Gradgrinds for whom knowledge meant a multitude of facts , and who thought they knew what a fact is . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Others , like myself , who knew George , or like Geoff Tulloch , who thought they ought to put in an appearance , travelled by the special minibus hired for the occasion . |
| 30 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |