Example sentences of "[pers pn] thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Heinz and I thought as one : that if the drawings could be housed in a Portman Square modernised for fire and climate control , and have the financial burden lifted from the shoulders of the RIBA , this would allow for spatial manoeuvre in Portland Place . |
| 2 | Nice work if you can get it , I thought as the tail lights of her Daimler ( or was it a Rolls ? ) disappeared into the night . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought as how the name was familiar . |
| 4 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 5 | I thought as in |
| 6 | I thought about it and it made me feel a bit better . |
| 7 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 8 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 9 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 10 | ‘ I reckon I did , ’ Cullam said , ‘ I did afterwards when I thought about it . |
| 11 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 12 | I thought about going in there , but I ai n't got no money . |
| 13 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 14 | As I thought about that perceptive question I realised its implications . |
| 15 | I thought about rescue . |
| 16 | It was after I thought about that that I began moving my things to the cave . |
| 17 | I thought about the early Scottish settlers of the Great Plains of America who endured terrible confusions because of the pure space they had never experienced before , except perhaps at sea . |
| 18 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
| 19 | A lot of them concerned the Arsenal team and what I thought about them . ’ |
| 20 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 21 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought about it — might , might not . ’ |
| 23 | I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it seemed a very good philosophy . |
| 24 | When the excitement had died down I thought about my family , of all their help and sacrifices over the years and of the hardships they had undergone to bring us all up . |
| 25 | And on this , one of the very best days of my life , I thought about my grandmother and how she had loved and cared for me when I was very young in Jamaica . |
| 26 | I thought about it . |
| 27 | I thought about it . |
| 28 | I thought about it . |
| 29 | Half of last night , I thought about you , but a piece of the jigsaw was missing . |
| 30 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |