Example sentences of "think it [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I should have thought it was at the bottom
2 prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops .
3 ‘ I would n't have thought it was beyond the realms of possibility . ’
4 Tallis thought it was about the middle of the day .
5 Yeah , I thought it was about the best one ever .
6 That might sound a ludicrous attempt to escape paying for a colour TV licence , but he obviously thought it was worth a try .
7 ‘ I thought it was worth a try , so I drove up here , booked myself in at a hotel down the road .
8 If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try .
9 Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started
10 An opinion poll in the Sunday Times showed that 80% of the population backed Britain 's military involvement , and 60% thought it was worth the loss of British servicemen 's lives to regain Kuwait .
11 did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all
12 I thought it was at the tenth anniversary , every five years after that , I did n't realise that came into , John said it was .
13 I thought it was for the best .
14 Yeah I thought it was on a couple of weeks ago oh no it was the whatsit millionaire was n't it ?
15 I thought it was on the right hand side as you went into village .
16 I thought it was on the cards ( Barnsley possibly ? ) during close season ?
17 I thought it was on the main road ?
18 In a taped interview which was played to the jury , Paul said : ‘ I just thought it was like a little tap on the head and that he would be all right .
19 ‘ He thought it was like a record — that you go to Number One immediately .
20 At first she thought it was like a watch-tower , because the roof sloped down to the tops of the two windows , making them the most important things .
21 First I thought it was like the one I used to own .
22 and half of it is rubbish and decent rubbish and that 's rubbish there it is I knew it was in here somewhere I knew I thought it was in the Prima they gave it to you but obviously it was erm in Essentials everything out of there do n't think they had many Christmas You used to was it you , you see you can make your own , was it you that we went up to town that time and brought those erm from John Lewis the round
23 I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment .
24 Just thought I 'd told you for cos from the erm , title i , you would n't think it was about the navy .
25 They 'd think it was like the things you heard on the television news , about children going missing .
26 But definitely they should er explore this County and not erm wanted to come into I think it was into the Estuary to drill for gold and minerals an all that , and the planning of the National Park said , No , and the blinking hole is only about four inches wide .
27 Well , I think it was about a fortnight
28 Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop .
29 I think it was since the salmonella scare some time ago .
30 No I think it was down the side I think he said .
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