Example sentences of "thought of [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When some thought of major change is initiated , all those affected will have their own interpretations of what is going on , based on their existing knowledge and experience . |
| 2 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 3 | But taking our morality from the Bible does not necessarily mean merely taking it on trust and authority , and abandoning all thought of moral knowledge . |
| 4 | Musical ethnologists will no doubt pull their hair out at eh mere thought of such cross-cultural impurity , but the results sound pretty good to my untrained ears . |
| 5 | When we saw Liz 's auburn colouring we instantly thought of pre-Raphaelite curls , and prepared to get out the tongs . |
| 6 | She thought of blackened red brick , chalk dust , shoe boxes , muddy hockey boots , the smell of groups of girls in classrooms . |
| 7 | It seemed to her that the only thing worth doing was to walk deep into those glades , far away from everything ; she thought of lingering by the streams and watching the sunlight move , in silence . |
| 8 | I thought of Biblical characters dressed in white flowing robes walking about the arid plains of Palestine or striding along the shores of the Sea of Galilee , making lepers leap into the air and hurl away their bells . |
| 9 | ‘ We thought of better excuses in my day . |
| 10 | I thought of hypothetical dangers — murderers , rapists ; and I have no doubt that such are abroad at night in the most unlikely of places at the most unlikely of times . |
| 11 | Wendy : ( butting in still occupied with thought of new flat mate . ) |
| 12 | For the next few weeks I thought of little else , and planned to read music there . |
| 13 | She looked out to sea , as far as she could through the mist , and thought of great trees whispering under the waves . |
| 14 | They thought of each other . ’ |
| 15 | In fact , I thought of interior designing , but you really need the right connections for that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We thought of that , sir , ’ said the inspector , a touch of melancholy in his voice . |
| 17 | I never thought of that . |
| 18 | Chemically-induced terror can be dispersed , I 've found , by concentrating on horrors in the real world , so I thought of That 's Life and VAT and Mrs Thatcher , and after a while I began to feel better . |
| 19 | I du n no why I thought of that — I just did . |
| 20 | I thought of that little girl last week when I nibbled some chocolates at a London theatre . |
| 21 | ‘ We never thought of that , ’ Cyril admitted . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm glad he thought of that . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't think he thought of that ! |
| 24 | ‘ I , too , thought of that but , no , I inspected the corpse . ’ |
| 25 | I never thought of that . |
| 26 | She thought of that queer white face she had seen , and a little shudder passed through her . |
| 27 | Katelina said , ‘ I wrote a message , to Lucia , in case you thought of that . |
| 28 | Otherwise his life would not have been possible , because he only thought of that every night , and every day too . ’ |
| 29 | He thought of that remark now , as he paused outside the house . |
| 30 | I wonder what Eric Clapton thought of that part of Nirvana 's performance ? |