Example sentences of "thought [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there ; she was wrong when she thought that everybody prayed , because Mrs Aggie did n't pray , nor did Ben , nor his Annie . |
| 2 | Cos she thought that me and Kelly were cleaning the rabbit |
| 3 | We have already seen that Hobbes and Gassendi diverged from Bacon 's belief that the scrutiny of natural histories would enable one to reach certainty about the causes of things , and thought that one could produce conjectures and hypotheses at best . |
| 4 | He was a convinced evolutionist and he thought that one could draw a line from the Egyptian lotus to the Greek palmette and from the Greek palmette to the acanthus which then developed into the arabesque like a biological affiliation . |
| 5 | This often happened when he thought that one or all of us were laughing at him , especially if he interpreted our teasing as mocking his intelligence . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought that one had been settled . |
| 7 | In 1767 Jonas Hanway thought that one in thirteen of London 's population was a domestic servant . |
| 8 | He thought that its roots reached back , as the doctor thought , into earlier life . |
| 9 | He submitted this scheme to Spring-Rice , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who thought that its narrowness and extreme length made it most inconvenient , and he instructed Burton to prepare another , incorporating the Colonial Office which occupied Nos 12 and 14 Downing Street at the west end . |
| 10 | Welford Beaton thought that its examination of the progress of cotton from field to factory would be of great educational value and he urged distributors to put the film into every motion-picture theatre in the world . |
| 11 | For a moment Franca thought that something obscene and horrible was about to happen . |
| 12 | The reductionist approach was not providing results in cancer research and I thought that something other than the presently known properties of carcinogens had to be involved as a activator . ’ |
| 13 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 14 | I thought that something might be found . ’ |
| 15 | Jared Tunstall thought that something more than hard work had brought his daughter fulfilment and a new maturity — and , with them both , a deeper beauty . |
| 16 | He thought that something more than automatic associations were made as he observed that the chimpanzees seemed to understand the principle in solving the problems . |
| 17 | Just the flicker of a smile when he thought that nobody was looking ( but Jed had practised the deft glance in the mirror and he did n't miss much ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought that ye said ye stole it . ’ |
| 19 | This was one of the reasons why Bethune-Baker , who thought that everything obscure was woolly , regarded him as useless if not bad for the young . |
| 20 | She thought that everything was composed of heat and corruption and water — that we live off death and water — and she resented her own blinding mortality . |
| 21 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 22 | And sometimes she thought that whatever Leo said , she nonetheless preferred her quiet evenings with her father or her outings with Thomas . |
| 23 | There were those who wanted to escape and thought that everyone else ought to want to , and there were those who did n't want to escape and who did n't want anyone else to want to either . |
| 24 | At the start of this test we thought that we were reviewing an all-purpose saw , but in fact we discovered that the Bosch All Purpose saw , model PFZ 550 PE , is a lot more ‘ all purpose ’ than we thought . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought that we would go up the Television Tower and see the view , then go to the museums , especially the Pergamon , then the Palace of the Republic , then … . ’ |
| 26 | My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought that we all were friends , ’ Pol said . |
| 28 | I thought that we were going to be able to love without fear . |
| 29 | Bishop George West thought that we should stay , but Pop knew that he , at least , must return , and finally he and I decided that we should all return , mainly because a separation when you three were still so young — and needing parents and not grandparents to care for you — seemed not the right course . |
| 30 | When Pop said , ‘ What about all those other people in the convoy , does n't the dear Lord care about them too ? ’ this worried the two ladies considerably , and I rather think after that they either thought that we were faithless , or became a little apprehensive themselves ! |