Example sentences of "thought about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought about the men she had met . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | He just felt pleased when he thought about the kudos of pulling someone half his age or less . |
| 10 | Alida thought about the man once , to decide that he was not worth thinking about , and then though t no more . |
| 11 | He thought about the vegetable patch at home and sitting by it on summer days . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | He thought about the long , long fall and then the flames , way below . |
| 16 | And he thought about the endless mystery of objects . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glass cubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch . |
| 19 | ‘ And you never thought about the rest of your body . ’ |
| 20 | He smiled as he thought about the previous night . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Jess thought about the one and sixpence she 'd had already without permission . |
| 23 | She wanted to know what Jed thought about the Dobson affair . |
| 24 | He thought about the wall for instance . |
| 25 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 26 | I wondered what Ant thought about the path Genesis had followed since his departure . |
| 27 | I studied piano , too , then trombone , but it was n't until someone at school turned up with a guitar which had been ‘ converted ’ into a bass that I really thought about the instrument . |
| 28 | As I mentioned last month , we 're keen on hearing what you thought about the races . |
| 29 | All through the night she thought about the problem . |
| 30 | He thought about the plot for a year or two , but when he sat down to write it late last year , it came very quickly . ’ |