Example sentences of "[noun] had think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thoth interrupted his stream of self-justification with the sentiment that it agreed the eigen state theory was possible and then humorously pointed out that simply because Ewan had thought of it , it was infinitely more possible . |
| 2 | Marie had thought about telling him the truth : that Bella had seen him and the police would soon be after him . |
| 3 | Freud had thought about the myth of Oedipus , and the relationships between parents and children , in 1897 in a letter to Fleiss , and there are explicit formulations of the idea in the Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis , given in 1909 in the United States . |
| 4 | When he was a child Nigel had thought of peeing as sex . |
| 5 | He should have thought of that risk ; he wondered if Sims had thought of it . |
| 6 | Does he agree that when Kent County Engineering Society recently held a seminar for primary school heads and local businesses , it turned out that not a single local business had thought of trying to interest primary school children in science and engineering . |
| 7 | The agent was up-to-date and wished , as was fashionable in those years , to give an amusing turn to the advertisement , which he thought ought to appear , not where Willis had thought of putting it , in the Exchange and Mart , but in the A circulation newspapers . |
| 8 | When he had learnt that Miss Alicia Lockwood , whom he considered one of the most charming and fascinating old dears he had ever met , had been mad enough to leave him half her beautiful and fantastic house , for one wild and quixotic moment Matthew had thought of refusing the legacy . |
| 9 | Endill had to think before working out that all the Bookman was talking about was the sun . |
| 10 | Stephen had thought of describing his discovery of Marianne Price 's body in this week 's column . |
| 11 | None o' the farmers had thought about having their horses roughed , and they set off extra early that morning to go to the Christmas market . |
| 12 | The major had thought about it . |
| 13 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 14 | James Watt had thought about moving steam engines , having had the idea suggested to him by various people . |
| 15 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 16 | Engineers , it was often said , only carried out ideas that other people had thought of first . |
| 17 | If Berowne had thought in these terms , then this was an incongruous place in which to receive so honoured a visitation . |
| 18 | Until recently , Peter had thought of Kate as someone to be avoided : a member of an alien species who happened to be Richard 's sister . |
| 19 | At first Folly had thought of reversing the roles , nervously picturing the arrival of a furious Luke , and the subsequent scene . |
| 20 | George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well . |
| 21 | Japanese leaders had thought of a similar division after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 . |
| 22 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 23 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 24 | ( Carothers had thought of investigating this route but had eventually concentrated on his polyamides . ) |
| 25 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 26 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 27 | Joan had thought of it and could understand Anne 's feelings . |
| 28 | ‘ Everybody 's a contender , ’ Maxim said , so softly that Agnes had to think for a moment to be sure what she 'd heard . |
| 29 | The Government , he said , was not predisposed to pay attention and believed that no idea was worth listening to unless Ministers had thought of it themselves . |
| 30 | Polly had to think about that . |