Example sentences of "thought [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These documents probably represented the more important business of the day matters which Secretary Cromwell and Lord Treasurer Burghley thought worth a special note . |
| 2 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |
| 3 | He has expectations you thought worth the venture ? |
| 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 | And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't . |
| 6 | Well I just thought as a woman not , you know as a person |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now , while I am at least mildly interested in his thoughts on evolution , why would the publisher of Angell 's book believe I would care what Gould thought about a baseball book ? |
| 9 | She thought about the men she had met . |
| 10 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 13 | A mind with original ideas , who wished to persuade the Protestants to be more Catholic and to persuade the Catholics to respect the truths of Protestantism , was instantly a must for those who thought about the reunion of the Churches . |
| 14 | Under the old system , where bishops were chosen by archbishops and prime ministers who thought about the needs of the nation , Ramsey would not have been chosen . |
| 15 | At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him . |
| 16 | ‘ We thought about the format , ’ said David Llewellyn , ‘ and we decided that the rule for the day was to keep two balls in play off the tee . |
| 17 | He just felt pleased when he thought about the kudos of pulling someone half his age or less . |
| 18 | Alida thought about the man once , to decide that he was not worth thinking about , and then though t no more . |
| 19 | He thought about the vegetable patch at home and sitting by it on summer days . |
| 20 | Mike , beginning to feel some exhilaration as he thought about the piece he would now have to write , and write bloody fast , pushed the thought away . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |
| 23 | He thought about the long , long fall and then the flames , way below . |
| 24 | And he thought about the endless mystery of objects . |
| 25 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |
| 26 | He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glass cubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch . |
| 27 | ‘ And you never thought about the rest of your body . ’ |
| 28 | He smiled as he thought about the previous night . |
| 29 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 30 | Jess thought about the one and sixpence she 'd had already without permission . |