Example sentences of "thought about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , it 's a valid point and one we thought about long and hard before deciding to give Stiff Little Fingers another go . |
| 2 | I actually asked prospective farmers what they thought about certain issues , because I think the Leicestershire county council er and our department are probably some of the best farmers landlords there are in the country and I think our tenant farmers know that in actual fact I asked the question to several of the members er er the potential er clients erm , what do you think about foxes . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course we thought about political problems , but everyone in Israel suffers from the same ones , ’ says Igor , a railway engineer studying at the Mevasseret ulpan . |
| 4 | I , I thought about six hundred . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And , as he coasted towards Maple Drive through the suburb 's still deserted streets , Henry thought about nice things . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As I watched them , I thought about all the crazy things the people I 've grown up with believe and do . |
| 10 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 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 | He stopped short of understanding Christianity because when he thought about that , he laid aside the receptive imagination with which he allowed himself to appreciate myth and became rigidly narrow and empiricist . |
| 13 | As I thought about that perceptive question I realised its implications . |
| 14 | She thought about that . |
| 15 | And he thought about that , and he kind of smiled and said , ‘ Yes , you 're right . ’ |
| 16 | What the voters thought about that they made perfectly clear in this year 's election . |
| 17 | He thought about that . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought about that too , sir , but I put it out of my mind . ’ |
| 19 | I thought about that for a moment , then , ‘ O.K. pay him will you ? |
| 20 | We thought about that friend of yours who 's in textiles . |
| 21 | I thought about that before saying any more . |
| 22 | I thought about that . |
| 23 | Chesarynth thought about that for a very long time . |
| 24 | Eventually it seemed it was only I who ever thought about that still , cold morning , recalling in my dreams that cry and that hand held out to me for help I could not , would not give , and the silence that followed Andy disappearing under the ice . |
| 25 | She knew it would keep him away from home even more than usual , and wondered what Elaine thought about that . |
| 26 | Burun thought about that possibility , then stood in his stirrups . |
| 27 | There was a moment while everybody thought about that , probably for no good reason except that they did n't like to see twenty years go by without offering up a few seconds ' respect-ful silence , then Sir Bruce asked : ‘ So she did n't go back to the GDR ? ’ |
| 28 | They thought about that for a moment . |
| 29 | I thought about that for an hour before deciding to ignore her , as Father always did . |
| 30 | I thought about that scent ; there was something about it , something extra besides the smell that reminded me of Marcus 's bathroom . |