Example sentences of "[pron] thought [prep] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought for the £48 you got the sheep as well as the quota . ’ |
| 3 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 4 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 5 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 6 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 7 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 8 | I thought from the discussion we had a month or so ago , that they 've used the eighty three based correction factors , but it maybe something else because the description this morning was given it was some lo other local one . |
| 9 | She thought of the way he exuded confidence and command , how he 'd earned instant respect in Florian 's , the way people in the bar had respectfully treated him … |
| 10 | Rage welled up in her as she thought of the way he had come to get her in London , so cool , so confident , so very self-assured . |
| 11 | She thought of the tryst they ’ had made … . |
| 12 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 13 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 14 | Deliberately she thought of the conversation she 'd overheard that morning . |
| 15 | She thought of the times she had put her hand into Nick 's , how she had sat beside him on the grass only half an hour ago . |
| 16 | She thought of the people she liked , whose company she enjoyed . |
| 17 | When she thought of the baths she had wallowed in at home , the scented soaps and thick towels , the perfumes and the lotions , she wanted to cry . |
| 18 | She thought of the lecture she had just read him on honesty and trembled . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She thought about the men she had met . |
| 21 | The more she thought about the situation she 'd somehow landed in , the more determined she became to get out of it . |
| 22 | Sometimes she thought from the way he seemed to watch her that he might like her too but he had never said anything and Sally was beginning to be afraid he never would . |
| 23 | you thought of the classics you do , podgy country maiden |
| 24 | You certainly knew what they thought about the way you were going about your job as Chief Constable . |
| 25 | His eyes were glinting as he thought about the revenge he could have on the Islington people . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 28 | He thought of the grain he 'd pinched yesterday , spilt and lost . |
| 29 | He thought of the calls he must make to tell the other T'ang , but for the moment he felt no impulse towards action . |
| 30 | He thought of the action he had instigated . |