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Example sentences for "thought they"

  • Do you think I could smile and talk if I thought they were in danger?

  • The burdens were not heavy, for we have little but our bedding and the tents left, and I thought they might as well stay where they were, and in the morning we could shift them on to the others.

  • Three days later Dias said he thought they might as well start the next day to Pachacamac.

  • He told me that there were many of them, and that they were camped at some little distance from the stream, just as I thought they would be.

  • Thought they'd grab you at Willaroon,' says he, looking at me quite sorrowful with his dark eyes, like a child.

  • Bill Webster, the driver, pulls up all standing when he sees what was in Starlight's hand, and holds the reins so loose for a minute I thought they'd drop out of his hands.

  • Thought they were up to anything, same as you and Jim.

  • And I thought they had an engine up there.

  • The men said they only wanted their rights, and did not wish to interfere with us at all, while we thought they were.

  • I thought they were a great hinderance to my efforts.

  • I thought they mightn't find him guilty here--so I let it go on.

  • Soames answered that he did not know, he thought they should be moving soon.

  • The chiefs, Yellow Panther and Red Eagle, thought they ought to march at once, but they yielded to Alloway who was master of the great guns with which they hoped to smash the palisades around the settlements.

  • One was that of a small party coming from the east, and he thought they might be Wyandots bound for the great camp.

  • Pears ez ef they knowed more about us than we thought they did, an' are tryin' to surround us," said Long Jim.

  • It is thought they went to Spain," replied Mrs. McAlery, solemnly, yet not without a certain zest.

  • My father couldn't intend to do that, just because my monthly reports hadn't always been what he thought they ought to be!

  • I thought they were, how should I say it, I just felt like they were kind of overeager, or just nosy, so to speak, and they just wanted to see around.

  • I don't know whether it will go all the way or not," also to take any available detectives on the third floor to the basement and place them where I thought they might be needed.

  • Number two; take any remaining detectives from the third floor down to the basement and place them where I thought they might be needed.

  • Perhaps, thought they, there is, after all, nothing so strange in such a number of them being together.

  • Perhaps, thought they, Francois has sprung a deer, or trampled up a flock of turkeys?

  • That, thought they, would be of just as little use; and they gave up the idea.

  • The throne seemed to me to be supported by certain animals; I believe I saw the form of them: I thought they might be the Evangelists.

  • I thought they were, perhaps, the seraphim or cherubim, for they were very different in their glory, and seemingly all on fire.

  • It is thought they are in some fashion swallowed up in the depths of the rocky mountain, continuing their underground course till they reach this cavern.

  • The natives are ferocious and warlike, and it is thought they are of the same race as the cannibals, for when they descend from their mountains to fight with their neighbours in the plain, they eat all whom they kill.

  • He thought they did, and for one or two reasons which he would submit to the consideration of the committee.

  • He thought they ought to act for themselves, without reference to the other branch.

  • Could they venture back alone, he thought they would be willing to return to the settlement.

  • At first I thought they might be enemies; but as no preparations were made for the defence of the camp, I knew that they must be friends.

  • By this time they had gone quite a long way, and as they reached the top of a ridge, Mr. Sturgis pointed toward a range of distant hills which cut off the view, and asked his nephew how far off he thought they were.

  • Jack had never seen such little bits of ducklings as some of these were, and Hugh told him that he thought they must be teal.

  • These were not just what he was after, but he thought they would do to practice on, and dismounting and throwing down his horse's rein, he walked toward them.

  • At first I thought they were my own men, but as they came closer I discovered they were the enemy.

  • One of my messmates, Trooper Cadman, kindly gave me his boots, as he thought they were in better condition than my own for our long desert trek.

  • Franzen asked me what I thought they were, and I said, "Perhaps some abandoned place, like the one we passed up the coast.

  • But not as stupid as he thought they were.

  • I thought they'd never stop thinking of things to ask.

  • I thought they'd have a lovely time getting it clear when the knots I made had swollen up!

  • It must be the camp of some other travellers, thought they.

  • He could not be long in coming, thought they.

  • He thought they might do far better if they only had a few dogs.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thought they" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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