Example sentences of "they thought be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , what they thought is that all the ones that |
| 2 | What they thought is because he 's assessing them and she 's , they 're assessing us while he 's assessing them . |
| 3 | Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) . |
| 4 | Jack and the vet ( who turned out to be an Irishman too ) drinking whiskey which they thought was brandy because I 'd put it into a brandy bottle … |
| 5 | To simply sit on this cushion at the BBC day after day and flip on anything they thought was moving — well , I thought that was the most sacred and powerful position in the universe . |
| 6 | They 're amazed that what they thought was a quiet little Swedish story appears round the world the next day , ’ says Mr McGovern . |
| 7 | Three faces lit up , beaming in upon what they thought was a crucial fact . |
| 8 | An inquest in Lancaster had earlier been told that by the time the information was received , Lancashire Police had spent £250,000 investigating what they thought was the murder of John Threlfall , 18 . |
| 9 | It exploded at 1.10am , seconds after two police officers sent to inspect what they thought was an abandoned white van under the flyover received the warning . |
| 10 | Making no mention of sex , she asked the children to tell her about anything that had happened to them at school which they thought was unfair . |
| 11 | Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky . |
| 12 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 13 | People walking across what they thought was firm snow would fall through into fast running streams that had n't even been there before . |
| 14 | Terrified of making the slightest slip — Kinnock and the rest played safe — or what they thought was safe . |
| 15 | They did what they thought was best in the circumstances . ’ |
| 16 | A stunned silence fell upon the room as they focused their attention on what they thought was princess Voluptua . |
| 17 | They wanted to give the notebook to Chris Bonington who they thought was coming to Kazakhstan in July . |
| 18 | The Germans are said to have shot 100 French hostages in reprisal for this sinking which they thought was the work of the Resistance . |
| 19 | She and Mrs Taylor went around the shops ordering what they thought was necessary and Dad and his cronies , Fred the lamplighter and his workmate Willie Turner , went along to The Golden Cup to order the drink . |
| 20 | In fact , what they thought was : . |
| 21 | There have also been at least five hospitalisations in the North-west recently , all people who became catatonic after taking what they thought was Ecstasy . |
| 22 | When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route . |
| 23 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |
| 24 | I was living at my folks and then my parents found what they thought was a lump of cannabis in my pocket . |
| 25 | However , the silence continued for some time , as though the other rabbits did not care to mention what they thought was wrong . |
| 26 | In the pub , after a meeting devoted to tasting home-made wine , Nigel and Simon were asked what they thought was the basis of conservatism . |
| 27 | Helicopter gunships fired missiles at what they thought was a command centre of warlord General Adid . |
| 28 | Helicopter gunships fired missiles at what they thought was a command centre of warlord General Adid . |
| 29 | If true , this would have implied either that the police had knowingly allowed a car that they thought was full of explosives to drive into and around the island , or that they were aware throughout the operation that the car was not dangerous . |
| 30 | Research conducted by a team at Bristol University asked a sample of the population in London what weekly income they thought was necessary to stay out of poverty . |