fancied
Example Sentences
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Having previously worked in print and marketing for decades, Paton said she had got to a point where she fancied a change.
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But while Bournemouth used to be a team who I always fancied to score, and could be quite open, recently they have become a lot tighter at the back.
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Instead, the Admiralty fed information about their system to a naval officer named Frederick Dreyer, who was a capable gunnery officer but not the great inventor he fancied himself to be.
All that hope, so often fancied to go all of the way, only for it to end in disappointment.
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After surrendering meekly in their opening two matches against China and South Korea, few fancied Rebecca Morrison's rink to right the wrongs against the world champions.
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