Example sentences of "had not thought [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The problem had not appeared overnight ; he was not leaping feet first into a situation that he had not thought about .
2 It was something we had not thought about hitherto ; it just shows how ignorant we are .
3 She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject .
4 I had not thought about much else except .
5 Many uses of the software are as yet , undiscovered , because although a software package is designed for one purpose , it can be adapted to meet a particular need within a school which the software designers had not thought about .
6 Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London .
7 Yet I had not thought of that banner for years .
8 In the first group session the counselling method is registered in the course tutor 's notes ( Menary , 1986 ) by the explanation : ‘ This session aims to get participants to consider the subject of alcohol in ways they had not thought of in the past ’ ( p. 3 ) .
9 The truth was that they were just jealous they had not thought of it before and made all of that money .
10 He realised that for the first time in weeks he had not thought of school , Murray , Fairbrother or the wretched affair of the letter .
11 She had not thought of that .
12 He realised that he had not thought of it before as detention .
13 I had not thought of catching things on the hop , as Ivy would say .
14 And the Wolverines had likewise been busy — though they had not thought of that rune trick …
15 Alice had not thought of that before .
16 They might also come up with some ideas the teacher had not thought of .
17 Many of the questions did not encourage informative or useful replies and in these cases pupils discovered they had not thought of enough questions or areas for inquiry in the time allocated .
18 Since Plato ( dreamed that he ) saw Socrates most days , and this was among the most vivid and consistent of all his experiences ( dreams ? ) , and since Socrates said things which he , Plato , had not thought of before and which sometimes surprised him , Plato found it most consistent and convenient to ’ believe ’ that Socrates really did exist .
19 She had not thought of it till now .
20 She felt a rush of excitement and anticipation , and realised that in the preoccupations of the last half hour she had not thought of Giles Carnaby once — definitely a record .
21 Later Anne thought over Sarah 's words about clothes for people who needed them and felt ashamed that she had not thought of their plight .
22 She had not thought of that , but remembered the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible .
23 Clare had not thought of that .
24 All the loving and giving of small luxuries and necessities that she had not thought of herself , and the expected regularity of their attendance at those sumptuous Sunday luncheons , encroached dangerously on the precious isolation of life at Kileady .
25 She certainly had not thought of him as ‘ shaping ’ at all in any direction .
26 The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before .
27 Even at the end he had not thought of her , and there was a quiet desolation on Jenna 's face .
28 I had not thought of such a thing .
29 ‘ You had not thought of it ? ’
30 She could see he had not thought of it this way .
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