Example sentences of "think [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 31 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
| 32 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 33 | Evidence suggests that there is a sizeable amount of foreign currency held in Poland — it is thought between one and two billion US dollars is currently banked with the financial institutions , but the undeclared amount almost certainly swells that figure many times over . |
| 34 | Prince Charles admitted as much : ‘ We 've thought of one or two . |
| 35 | So I hope you 've all thought of one word , right , if somebody else has said it before you you 've got ta think quick and think of something else . |
| 36 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 37 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 38 | A particular substance , tetra-hydro. iso-quinolone ( THIQ ) , was thought at one time to be the active chemical " cause " of addiction but this is no longer thought to be precise cause . |
| 39 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 40 | erm I go along with what erm Simon said about Paul , I 'm I thought at one time that they would go for Cox and him , to be perfectly honest , he 's absolutely right on what he said , and I 'm sure they 're relying on the fact that I believe Paul is going to be a home track and they 're going to pick a lot points up at home . |
| 41 | Sometimes a resident of one of those towns was thought by one of his fellow citizens to be particularly obnoxious or dangerous , even though it was not possible to prove anything against him in law . |
| 42 | Thought by one of the judges to make a good radio play . |
| 43 | In many transactions it is either necessary or thought by one of the parties to be commercially worthwhile to obtain consent for or approval of certain items before the business transfer is completed . |
| 44 | They 're the classic example of a band that thinks with one brain , and if you took one component out it would n't happen . ’ |
| 45 | Jack Heinz and I thought as one : that if the drawings could be housed in a Portman Square modernised for fire and climate control , and have the financial burden lifted from the shoulders of the RIBA , this would allow for spatial manoeuvre in Portland Place . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | ‘ If we thought for one moment that the health of the public was at risk we 'd stop selling eggs . ’ |
| 48 | I thought for one moment he was about to perform a Highland Fling . |
| 49 | I NEVER thought for one moment that my life would become bound up with rivers . |
| 50 | Meredith watched the long , well-manicured fingers gripping the glass until his joints showed white and she thought for one crazy moment that it was going to break into shards . |
| 51 | ‘ I thought for one moment you said twenty-five a year . ’ |
| 52 | I do n't suppose you thought for one minute that anything really drastic would happen to him … ’ |
| 53 | Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was |
| 54 | I thought for one hopeful minute you were gon na wind up then . |
| 55 | Our hack at the train buffet overheard recently just what the workers at Dounreay , where Britain 's work on fast breeder reactors is based , thought of one of the UKAEA 's director 's . |
| 56 | Last night I thought of one , it was a sort of butter-yellow ( farm-butter-yellow ) held rising to a white luminous sky and the sun just rising . |
| 57 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 58 | We thought at one stage we were going to see you motorbiking . |
| 59 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 60 | I thought at one time Didi and I would get along well enough , but , after finding my sweet , simple , clumsy , courageous , honest , fiery … ’ his voice dropped to a husky whisper ‘ … beautiful , passionate Sagittarian , I know no other woman would have satisfied me . ’ |