Example sentences of "thought [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a labour film Hamilton thought that it got nowhere and even as a film about a mining community he thought that ‘ everything is too neat and tidy and well-ordered to hint at what actual conditions may be ’ . |
| 2 | McLeish thought that it seemed a reasonably sensible plan . |
| 3 | Alexandra took the small soft hand in hers and thought that it seemed smaller than ever , frailer , more insubstantial . |
| 4 | I just thought that it seemed to be , you know ? |
| 5 | She 'd put a fifty-pound note in it and so she thought that it had been stolen . |
| 6 | BIIBA wanted a stay of execution on Fimbra 's plans and thought that it had gained such a deal when its chairman , David Palmer , met Fimbra chairman Lord Elton . |
| 7 | One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative ; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route . |
| 8 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
| 9 | One head of department thought that it had increased marginally as a result of being more involved in decision-making , but this was less important to him than teaching . |
| 10 | I never thought that it had to be a ‘ rule ’ . ’ |
| 11 | If the invitation had come as a result of anxious discussion with Jenny about Cassie 's state of mind , and she rather thought that it had , Ben showed no sign of it . |
| 12 | Dalgliesh thought that it had probably been built later , perhaps because the original owner of the mansion had quarrelled with the local parson and , in defiance , had decided to make his own arrangements for spiritual ministrations . |
| 13 | I thought that it undermined the satisfaction of ‘ getting a place in college ’ for students with severe learning difficulties . |
| 14 | As they drove up to the house Constance thought that it looked very dark and silent . |
| 15 | Lucy thought that it looked fine . |
| 16 | Weasel thought that it looked like some dark fungus or mushroom . |
| 17 | The Chief Justice did however stress that a by-law would not be held to be unreasonable simply because a particular judge thought that it went further than was prudent or necessary or convenient . |
| 18 | and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me |
| 19 | And he thought that it did square , that there was a common root , a matrix of beliefs . |
| 20 | It was an unemotional summary ; Rostov thought that it hid well the bitterness which he felt towards Irina 's kin for their concerted opposition to her marriage , for the years of separation which had been achieved by her father 's influence with the Navy Board and , not least , for the extent to which Alexei 's upbringing had been influenced by the rigid infrastructure of the Court . |
| 21 | I thought if it makes it growl only . |
| 22 | He says ; I thought I would not make the mistake with strangers but I never acyually thought when it happened it would be so convincing . |
| 23 | Briar Cottage looked of a sudden smaller , Joan thought as it came into sight . |
| 24 | The bird 's darting eye sought his frantically before it glazed ; he thought as it twitched about on the hard dry clods that he might break its neck to bring its death throes to an end . |