Example sentences of "she thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 4 | Asked what she thought of Slava Zaitsev , the man who has dressed rich Soviet women and diplomats ' wives since the Brezhnev era and the only Soviet fashion designer well known in the West , she curled up her nose . |
| 5 | She was already by his side before she thought of how her face and hair must look . |
| 6 | There were moments when she thought of looking for outside help but there was really no one she could turn to . |
| 7 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 8 | And this business of self-expression — she thought of Bunte with her striped hair . |
| 9 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 10 | By his side , the magnificent cosmetically-engineered Eleanor graphically expressed what she thought of the farewell party through blazing eyes which darted alarmingly under false eyelashes . |
| 11 | Then she thought of the blackberrying and the melon , of the feathered hens that laid eggs , and of the church eagle of glinting metal that glowed like gold . |
| 12 | It was better that she thought of neither . |
| 13 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
| 14 | She thought of him nicking the crisps , of him not caring what he did . |
| 15 | Then she thought of Charles and the laugh died away rather suddenly . |
| 16 | She thought of evening skies , the silhouettes of lonely birds against the sun , and tired land . |
| 17 | She thought of standing against this landscape and of being somehow contained within herself : resolute , alone , but not lonely . |
| 18 | She thought of Nathan , victim to his own juices , almost dehumanised by the urges of a young male brought into such sharp focus by Leila 's meddling . |
| 19 | But she thought of how , if the positions had been reversed , she would have written pages full of detail to Ellen , would have described a child in such a way as to make him spring from the writing , alive and visible . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Instantly , she thought of Ferdinando and whether he would go off to fight now as he had fought then . |
| 22 | She felt frightened and strange as she thought of greeting her first-born , who would not know her and might recoil with horror and cry for Ellen . |
| 23 | She thought of the Richard-Sophie letters . |
| 24 | She thought of three couples , friends , who had managed to get to Israel after a bitter struggle . |
| 25 | She thought of Yevdoxia , his wife , dragging his decayed body and bruised mind around . |
| 26 | That was how she thought of it . |
| 27 | She thought of what her colleagues and students might be doing this Wednesday morning — earnestly discussing the poetry of John Donne or the novels of Jane Austen or the nature of modernism , in centrally heated , carpeted rooms . |
| 28 | She thought of Charles at the University of Suffolk , giving a lecture , perhaps , on Romantic landscape poetry , illustrated with slides . |
| 29 | She thought of looking at the doctor and indicating that he should interfere and stop it ; but she did not . |
| 30 | Or rather , they would now be on their way back , since they had decided ( Franca could imagine the little conversation , she thought of it as a ‘ little ’ conversation ) to stay away only one night , instead of the three nights originally planned . |