Example sentences of "always thought [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms .
2 Well you always thought about going to the Beefeater a bu really I suppose it might be better to go today than tomorrow .
3 The mighty Thames had dignity and sober beauty but , despite Wordsworth 's sonnet , I always thought of it as business-like , the powerful engine-room of the city .
4 The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us .
5 He was pressed for a date and told ‘ before tonight I always thought of you as a child — but you 're not . ’
6 As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high , pointed hats and long sweeping gowns .
7 She always thought of herself .
8 And she was careful not to be found out ; her recklessness , she says was only apparent : she always thought of Anna .
9 ‘ I always thought of ‘ Sonnet ’ as an art poem , ’ said Joe .
10 I always thought of it as a loan .
11 Aunt Ilsa was a large , loud woman of forbiddingly intense bonhomie ; I always thought of her as being the most remote outpost of the McHoan clan ( unless you counted the still purportedly peripatetic Uncle Rory ) ; a stout bulwark of a woman who for me at least — had always personified the dishevelled ramifications of our family .
12 He always thought of it as some kind of converted dungeon , but he sees now , with a wry smile , that it 's really just an ordinary suburban house .
13 I always thought there was , always thought of y you know , there was nothing that you could n't work .
14 We always thought of Headline as a big company in embryo rather than as a little company .
15 He always thought of them as mirror men , full of quickfire patter and smooth gestures , distracting , creating images .
16 He always thought of the Cold War as a deal between cynical power brokers and military-industrial magnates with money to make from mega-deaths .
17 Felix , who always thought of himself as a bit of a lad and an all-round popular fellow , took it in good part .
18 She narrowed her eyes and added in clipped tones , ‘ I know you always thought of this as your home and that you never wanted me to be a part of it .
19 And erm she always thought of her husband as daddy .
20 always thought of rebuking the girl , so
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