Example sentences of "think as he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had caught cold , or more likely , suffered from an allergy , Trent thought as he remarked the inflamed eyelids that shuttered the eyes and a nose drip that the thin man dipped into a linen handkerchief every half-a-minute — dip , dip , like a skinny waterbird feeding along the tideline . |
| 2 | Those yachts , with their flowing sheer , were the swans , Golden Girl was the barracuda , Trent thought as he recalled the big fish hardly stirring as it circled him . |
| 3 | ‘ A gey driech day , ’ he thought as he adjusted the grey woollen scarf tied as a muffler at his throat and pulled down his large , cloth cap against the wind . |
| 4 | But at least , he thought as he gave a final wave , she had n't asked him whether he had come to Norfolk to help catch the Whistler . |
| 5 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 6 | Requiem for a monk , Trent thought as he watched the cocaine-addicted mestizo squatting on the cabin top . |