Example sentences of "[pers pn] thought [prep] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt hotter than I need have done as I thought of the man who fed the dough on long , long shovels into that blazing hole . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Deliberately she thought of the conversation she 'd overheard that morning . |
| 14 | ’ She thought of the pedlar who had chased her and Oliver later that same day . |
| 15 | Except suddenly she thought of the receptionist who would normally be at that desk . |
| 16 | She thought of the lecture she had just read him on honesty and trembled . |
| 17 | She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in . |
| 18 | As she made the tea she thought about the way her brothers had talked about Mandy Watkins . |
| 19 | The more she thought about the situation she 'd somehow landed in , the more determined she became to get out of it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You certainly knew what they thought about the way you were going about your job as Chief Constable . |
| 22 | He thought about the decadence which existed at the centre of the Empire . |
| 23 | His eyes were glinting as he thought about the revenge he could have on the Islington people . |
| 24 | He thought about the position which he was being forced to take , and decided that he was unhappy about the whole situation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 27 | He thought of the grain he 'd pinched yesterday , spilt and lost . |
| 28 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 29 | He thought of the future which no longer contained him but which he could still control . |
| 30 | He thought of the action he had instigated . |