Example sentences of "thought that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I thought that about it |
| 2 | Leech had only a short time to go before his own appointment came to an end , but thought that under the circumstances he should offer his resignation . |
| 3 | He said he thought that under the current situation Right-wing Ministers like Michael Howard , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo were consistently being out-voted . |
| 4 | Sally felt good in it — the fur was gorgeously soft when she buried her chin in it and she thought that at least she could hold her own in the midst of all this elegance . |
| 5 | She nodded assent and as I turned to lead the way I thought that at close quarters she was probably younger than I 'd assumed , or else that she was older but immature : an odd impression , fleeting and gone . |
| 6 | Andrew , sitting by her bed , holding one icy hand in his , thought that at least was a blessing . |
| 7 | However she thought that at that stage Miss T. was able to understand what was going on . |
| 8 | I thought that at least part of what I 'd said had satisfied him . |
| 9 | Melanie thought that at least Uncle Philip could have bought her a sewing machine , so she need not have to stitch the long seams by hand . |
| 10 | Oliver did not believe her , but he thought that at last this might be an opportunity to escape . |
| 11 | Caspar walked rather ploddingly along at Fenella 's side , but Fenella thought that at least he was at her side and found this unexpectedly comforting . |
| 12 | I thought that at last I 'd found someone I could share my life with . |
| 13 | She thought of all the wretched women in the East End , and aye , in the West End too , not excluding her own maltreated self , and thought that at whatever cost she would carry out the task she had set herself — to find out how the under-privileged lived , and to strike a blow for suffering womanhood while she did so . |
| 14 | ‘ You thought that at first , ’ he prompted gently , ‘ but afterwards you changed your mind ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I thought that at first , Dad , ’ said Rachel , ‘ but I 've changed my mind . |
| 16 | We also thought that on the feast of St Thomas More , June 24th it would be a good idea to celebrate the feast in the evening in the school hall when we can all gather to meet for the first or last time and say ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ Good-bye ’ as appropriate . |
| 17 | Other employers thought that on costing their executives ' valuable time and all the overheads involved in do-it-yourself recruiting , the differences in total expense were probably marginal . |
| 18 | The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms . |
| 19 | The court thought that on these facts it was potentially misleading to give the full Ghosh direction . |
| 20 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 21 | I suddenly thought that on the advert that 's gone in |
| 22 | So much so , that the doctor , who was new to the district , thought that for safety 's sake , Jim should take her into the hospital at Invercargill . |
| 23 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 24 | Also I could hear irony in his tone and I thought that for some reason he was very annoyed indeed . |
| 25 | The committee thought that for a grass court tournament she should be marginally favoured over Sanchez Vicario . ’ |
| 26 | I always thought that to be a religious Jew , you had to dress like someone from nineteenth-century Poland . |
| 27 | Fleming sought help in identifying the mould from the mycologist La Touche , who worked in the same building and who thought that of the many species of Penicillium , it was most like Penicillium rubrum . |
| 28 | He sat by his mother 's bed , biting the skin at the side of his nails , and thought that of all the grudges you bear , the grudges you bear against your parents are the ones you live with always — you can not fight them any more than you can fight heat or cold or some virulent infection in the blood . |
| 29 | They could , in fact , be located offshore in shallow water , and lying on the beach watching these large structures with their whirling blades in the murky or hazy distance might be quite satisfying thought that without doing anything they are just providing the nation 's energy , or some of it . |
| 30 | Some people thought that with the mitre on his white hair he looked like one of the effigies on the tombs of the prelates which they met recumbent in cathedrals , and fancied that here was a bishop out of the Middle Ages . |