Example sentences of "thought of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is often the case , much of the ‘ aid , was more or less off-loaded to clear warehouses in the donor country with little thought of its use to the victims of catastrophe . |
| 2 | Only when the tenants brought the local newspaper down to see the dead rats and disrepair was the council moved to begin some repairs and rebuild the roof , but not before telling the press what it thought of its tenants . |
| 3 | I thought of its maker ; Lawrence the animal ; Lawrence the master craftsman ; such an amalgam , so potent ; take away the magic of hand and eye — no replica of the key ; take away the brute — no key to replicate , for only a brute could have done to Holy Harding what Lawrence did to Holy Harding — Holy Harding , school monitor , altar boy , server in the Cathedral of ix … |
| 4 | What the pair of county ladies thought of its mid-thigh hemline Harry could not imagine , but he for one was not about to object to the brush of her black-stockinged knees against his drab-trousered legs . |
| 5 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 6 | Tears ran down her cheeks as she thought of her first-born , of how he ought to be here , a part of the family circle . |
| 7 | As she walked Maggie thought of her father whose body had been one of the last recovered . |
| 8 | Winnie felt guilty , sometimes , when she read of people crowded into tenements , and thought of her own empty bedrooms . |
| 9 | She thought of her grandparents , their prayers for her and the sound Christian education they had provided . |
| 10 | She thought of her father 's many remarks on that subject , his outrage when India was finally granted independence . |
| 11 | The days passed happily enough but at night , in the tiny cabin she shared with Anna , she sometimes lay awake and thought of her cousins , down below in that hell-hole . |
| 12 | Then , perhaps with some thought of her own Christmas to be spent partly with the Queen at Sandringham she added : ‘ The lonely , the confused and the simply unloved , who need your help more than ever . ’ |
| 13 | She thought of her own son amongst the crowd today . |
| 14 | He thought of her previous radiance , the eagerness with which she had made plans to visit the Pump Room , potter round antique shops , drive out to Savernake Forest and Cheddar Gorge . |
| 15 | When she thought of her old friend , she felt ashamed . |
| 16 | She thought of her brothers . |
| 17 | He thought of her tongue , and tasted it ; he imagined her breasts , and she took his hands to them ; he wished she would speak , and she spoke ( oh , how she spoke ) , words he had n't dared admit he 'd wanted to hear . |
| 18 | And she thought of her tiny incursion into that life . |
| 19 | She thought of her warm bed , and began to close the window . |
| 20 | She thought of her mother , clear and distinct , very small , seen through the wrong end of a telescope , lying in the wreckage on yellow sand wearing her best black suit , with a small , travelling hat , surrounded by the charred fragments of other people 's flesh . |
| 21 | For the loss of her he had compensated as best he could , first with the imaginary friend he called Rip , then with the moor itself , but in May he thought of her still and with a curious longing . |
| 22 | She thought of her father — that grey and distant figure associated only with anchovy paste and a rustling newspaper . |
| 23 | She thought of her husband shaving in the morning in trousers and vest . |
| 24 | Sometimes she worried that her idealism might diminish with age and that she would end up as mindless as the foe , but when she thought of her stepfather she was consoled . |
| 25 | Sometimes she thought of her first husband and wondered briefly whether gross infidelity was really sufficient cause for divorce and whether faithless men were not perhaps — overall — more amusing than the other sort . |
| 26 | Sitting rigid in the darkness she thought of her father . |
| 27 | Pushing unpainted fingers through her cropped chestnut curls , she looked down , and thought of her own boyishly slender figure beneath the enveloping oilskins . |
| 28 | Agnes thought of her clothes and jewellery in such terms , just as she thought of her car as a two-year-old 3-door Chevette ES in Regatta Blue with wing mirrors and two radio aerials . |
| 29 | He had fully intended to tell her exactly what he thought of her disgraceful conduct , for he had no doubt at all that what had been done had been done deliberately . |
| 30 | Things were pretty tense as it was and all her own tension had come flooding back , especially when she thought of her reaction to Felipe . |