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'thought him to be' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you are expressing an opinion or idea that you had about someone or something. Example: I thought him to be a reliable person, but in the end I was proven wrong.
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I've always thought him to be narcissistic, self-serving and grandiose.
One poll of A.N.C. voters taken last October showed that only 41percentthoughthimhim to be innocent.
Keating was present at the launch and praised Pearson, saying he had always thought him to be "Australia's Obama".
In "Wailing Moon," a wife learns a shocking secret after her husband's death, realizing he was never the man she thought him to be.
Indeed, when the good colonel led the Libyan coup in 1969, many right-thinking Westerners thought him to be a modernizing democrat".
Mr. Perry's campaign became so feeble at the end that it is easy to forget why many observers, myself included, once thought him to be quite formidable.
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Instead, anyone would think him to be facing a wipe-out at the polls.
The implication that his economics was uncaring might have disturbed Adam Smith, for he was hardly the man that many now think him to be.
He must just appear to be as charming and helpful and reliable as all the characters in the play think him to be.
Other displays show how Van Gogh was a late starter who worked hard to master his craft in the decade before his death at age 37, as opposed to being the artistic genius many think him to be.
Chicken Chuck ate a blue seed and grew a blue feather that he thought entitled him to be bossy.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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