Example sentences of "thought [prep] [num] " 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 | I , I thought about six hundred . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ If we thought for one moment that the health of the public was at risk we 'd stop selling eggs . ’ |
| 5 | I thought for one moment he was about to perform a Highland Fling . |
| 6 | I NEVER thought for one moment that my life would become bound up with rivers . |
| 7 | Meredith watched the long , well-manicured fingers gripping the glass until his joints showed white and she thought for one crazy moment that it was going to break into shards . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought for one moment you said twenty-five a year . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't suppose you thought for one minute that anything really drastic would happen to him … ’ |
| 10 | Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was |
| 11 | I thought for one hopeful minute you were gon na wind up then . |
| 12 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 13 | I thought for thought for fifteen minutes I was er should I or should I not join the company . |
| 14 | I thought for fifteen pounds , seven pounds and forty nine P |
| 15 | I thought for ten pence a week that was not bad rubbish . |
| 16 | You ca n't you ca n't and that 's what people thought for thousands of years lots of years . |
| 17 | Our hack at the train buffet overheard recently just what the workers at Dounreay , where Britain 's work on fast breeder reactors is based , thought of one of the UKAEA 's director 's . |
| 18 | Last night I thought of one , it was a sort of butter-yellow ( farm-butter-yellow ) held rising to a white luminous sky and the sun just rising . |
| 19 | She thought of three couples , friends , who had managed to get to Israel after a bitter struggle . |
| 20 | An older club member gave me a lift back to the station and I asked her what she thought of Ten Forward . |
| 21 | The 19 per cent who thought in 1987 he would make the best Prime Minister compares with 28 per cent today . |
| 22 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 23 | Fuck it , she thought at five , maybe I just wo n't go home . |
| 24 | I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young . |
| 25 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 26 | We thought at one stage we were going to see you motorbiking . |
| 27 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 28 | I thought at one time Didi and I would get along well enough , but , after finding my sweet , simple , clumsy , courageous , honest , fiery … ’ his voice dropped to a husky whisper ‘ … beautiful , passionate Sagittarian , I know no other woman would have satisfied me . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was . |
| 30 | Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do . |