Example sentences of "thought it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I thought it 'd been a nice day we could of nipped down to Sainsbury 's |
| 2 | I just could n't , I thought I thought it 'd got something to do with absence . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought it had been adjourned . ’ |
| 4 | After every census , the bureau conducts its own internal estimate of how many people it missed : in 1980 it thought it had missed 1.4% of the population , including 5–6% of blacks ( and perhaps as many as 18% of black males ) . |
| 5 | The government thought it had solved the problem by ruling that , in disputed cases , ‘ important ’ investment needed to create jobs should be allowed to proceed and that former owners would have to accept compensation . |
| 6 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 7 | A Free French administration was installed in Beirut and General de Gaulle quickly made it clear that he intended to keep his forces in Lebanon however much independence the country thought it had been given . |
| 8 | Thought it had slipped down the bedclothes somewhere . |
| 9 | The veterinary surgeon should not claim a higher place for his profession than the public thought it had earned , and was willing to give it . |
| 10 | Forty-three out of the 123 reported a definite reduction in cellulite and a further 35 said they thought it had improved . |
| 11 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 12 | Edith Sitwell had wanted to sue a reviewer because his notice was likely to hurt the sales of her book — and we thought it had merely been his duty to his readers to discourage them from buying a book that he thought bad . |
| 13 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 14 | However , where it is discovered that the tax law does not have the effect that the Government and taxpayers generally thought it had , there are circumstances in which it is right to introduce legislation to restore the position retrospectively to what it was thought to be . |
| 15 | And anxious that his relationship with Chantal might not be all he thought it had been . |
| 16 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 17 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 18 | The Audi that thought it had a clear run had to brake hard … |
| 19 | The court thought it had nailed Mr Nadir 's feet to the floor by making him post a record-breaking £3.5m ( $1.5m ) . |
| 20 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 21 | Thought it had gone quiet for a s Have you put your tails on there yet ? |
| 22 | Within Dotty 's hearing a home pirate remarked that he thought it had all been a storm in a teacup . |
| 23 | Later , however , I did tell him that the meeting had been a disaster and that if he thought it had mollified the press in any way he was greatly mistaken . |
| 24 | He did not think that their ambitions extended far into Western Europe but he thought it had been a serious error to let the Russians take Berlin and establish themselves there . |
| 25 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 26 | She sometimes thought it had saved her life as it had undoubtedly saved Camille 's . |
| 27 | The winged creature had finished with the boy now and Nuadu thought it had taken its fill of the strange silvery liquid . |
| 28 | I thought it had to be him . |
| 29 | that the outcry which followed Morgan was not because the House of Lords had changed the law but because the public mistakenly thought it had done so . |
| 30 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |