Example sentences of "think [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexandra said , ‘ You will both think me the poorest — sport , but I 'm going to refuse . ’ |
| 2 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 3 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 4 | She was in a mindless world where she had forgotten everything about why he was there , mindless that not half an hour ago she had thought him the most hateful of men when , abruptly , shatteringly , he suddenly stilled . |
| 5 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
| 6 | ‘ I was afraid you might not think him the right friend for me , ’ said Mrs Ames . |
| 7 | ‘ When — in this room after I 'd finished telling you of the singing fountain , you said , ‘ How lovely ’ and I own , I thought you the most lovely creature , in mind and body , that I had ever known . ’ |
| 8 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 9 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 10 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 11 | Although he was wearing an old check shirt and dirty cricket flannels that stopped above his ankles , Constance thought him the most elegantly handsome man she had ever seen . |
| 12 | Bissett thought him the most brilliant man he had ever met . |
| 13 | All she had learned was that he was a man whose wife thought him the apple of her eye and who had tastes in Italian painting that were remarkably similar to her own . |
| 14 | Out of all the men who had liked her and wanted her , why did it have to be someone who thought her the most despicable of all cheats who made her yearn for something more ? |
| 15 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 16 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 17 | But plenty of people thought it the height of irresponsibility to allocate £11 million to having a fling . |
| 18 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 19 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 20 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 21 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 22 | Foreign competition alarmed English manufacturers , who thought it the explanation of their difficulties . |
| 23 | I thought it the gesture of someone who has noticed a fellow human being about to step in something horrible but who is too polite to draw attention to the fact by seeming sorry for her . |
| 24 | The Layfield Committee ( 1976 ) thought it the most feasible and equitable form of additional local revenue . |
| 25 | I thought he the way he acted and I I thought he was er a real comedian . |
| 26 | This birth was so quick and easy , Wilson could not think it the same process as Oreste 's . |
| 27 | He might think it the honourable thing to do . |
| 28 | Is I mean i Do you think it the fact that there is it is an area of high unemployment has anything to do with it at all ? |
| 29 | Really I think I am able to demonstrate in a written account of the research that I am presenting a very real account of their teaching and their problems , as well as their successes erm sometimes I was able to observe lessons that went wrong and were very erm difficult for the teachers , as well as the lessons that were successful , so I do n't really think it the problems at the end . |
| 30 | Even if you think me the most immoral bastard ever to walk the face of the earth , why would you react so personally ? |