Example sentences of "[noun] thought it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keynes thought it resembled a Gruyère cheese — holes without the surrounding cheese ! |
| 2 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 3 | Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it |
| 4 | ‘ It was changed from the original Florizel Street because Agnes the tea lady thought it sounded like disinfectant , ’ said Warren . |
| 5 | Maria had become Mary because the management thought it sounded more Irish . |
| 6 | Nigel thought it looked very much like that of a French aristocrat , with all those curls . |
| 7 | She spoke with such vehemence Wilson thought it better not to risk a reply , though in her head she practised saying what nonsense she thought Mrs Browning spoke . |
| 8 | Its chains slithered across the stone floor again , and there was a breathspace when Grainne thought it cowered . |
| 9 | The fact that three quarters of those prescribed medication thought it to have been very or fairly effective may be thought to vindicate this as a first line approach , but side effects from anticholinergic drugs are common , and important diagnoses ( for example , a neurological condition ) may be delayed . |
| 10 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
| 11 | A month ago , the UN thought it had persuaded Iran and Iraq to agree on a mixed military commission to settle some of the problems along their 750-mile border . |
| 12 | Defries thought it looked a bit obscene ; but then , perhaps that was appropriate . |
| 13 | I was very pleased with the result and my friend thought it looked like fashion lace . |
| 14 | The court thought it had nailed Mr Nadir 's feet to the floor by making him post a record-breaking £3.5m ( $1.5m ) . |
| 15 | As he rode away , Seb thought it had been a very small lie , yet it had brought an expression of joy to Melody 's face that he would never forget . |
| 16 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
| 17 | Or at least that may dangerous people thought it did . |
| 18 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Some users thought it gave greater " precision " or " tied down their ideas . " |
| 21 | The clocks are very expensive — some costing more than ten thousand pounds , but even in the depths of a recession the firm thought it had enough work to keep it ticking over . |
| 22 | There were , though , negative comments : 17% of respondents thought it looked extravagant and was too glossy . |
| 23 | Reviewing Dunster in the Financial Times , Isabel Quigly described the book as ‘ masterly ’ and Boyd Tonkin in New Statesman and Society thought it purred along ‘ like a vintage but comfily upholstered limo ’ . |
| 24 | The winged creature had finished with the boy now and Nuadu thought it had taken its fill of the strange silvery liquid . |
| 25 | On the one hand — and this is a point to which I shall return — there is a dual claim against Lukács ' evolutionism ( to the effect that different levels of a social formation are relatively autonomous : crudely , if bourgeois society is decadent this does not necessarily mean , as Lukács thought it did , that its art is too ) , and in favour of the possibility of being able to pass a positive ‘ aesthetic judgement ’ upon a particular work however questionable the general category under which it has been produced ( a position related to Brecht 's polemic against Lukács ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The DTI thought it had done a deal with the lawyers and police : by the end of last September these would say whether or not there were grounds for criminal charges . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 30 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |