Example sentences of "thought it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smart 's nephew Christopher Hunter , in his edition of 1791 , thought it belonged to a group of poems which had been ‘ written after his confinement , and bear … melancholy proofs of the recent estrangement of his mind ’ . |
| 2 | " I thought it belonged to Preston ! " |
| 3 | Oh I thought it said no |
| 4 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 5 | The audience included pupils , parents and guests — some of whom thought it compared favourably with the nineteen thirty-nine classic starring Laurence Olivier ; |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it added a lot of atmosphere . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought it added a lot of atmosphere . |
| 8 | And in its attempts to obey , the Anglican branch had evolved ad hoc , adding to itself bits and pieces to meet needs it thought it perceived . |
| 9 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
| 10 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 11 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 12 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 13 | And th there there was a cartoon in the paper in the week I thought it made me smile really . |
| 14 | When I read it , I was at first very put off , but I 'm glad I persevered , as in the end I was quite charmed , and thought it contained some very shrewd observations , too . |
| 15 | I just thought it followed on the next page there |
| 16 | A friend of a friend had recently married through Dateline so she thought it seemed worth a try . |
| 17 | Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it |
| 18 | I thought it seemed a funny thing to do . |
| 19 | I thought about it calmly , still standing there as though nothing had passed through my mind but the continual computation guiding the kite , and I thought it seemed reasonable . |
| 20 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 21 | It may have started a bit playfully but I thought it got out of hand . |
| 22 | Nigel thought it looked very much like that of a French aristocrat , with all those curls . |
| 23 | I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly . |
| 24 | I know that sounds quite sad and it 's embarrassing that I copied him , but I ca n't help it because I thought it looked so great on him . |
| 25 | I had noticed the scaffolding placed around it the week before and thought it looked an odd sight , with the Chairman 's head just visible over the striped plastic sheeting . |
| 26 | I was very pleased with the result and my friend thought it looked like fashion lace . |
| 27 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 28 | Personally , I thought it looked more like an earthworm ! |
| 29 | Defries thought it looked a bit obscene ; but then , perhaps that was appropriate . |
| 30 | I thought it looked lovely . |