Example sentences of "[adv] she thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except suddenly she thought of the receptionist who would normally be at that desk . |
| 2 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 3 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 4 | So she thought about Baby , not sad thoughts but ordinary ones . |
| 5 | She responded with a round-robin letter to all her employees , thanking them for their contributions and enthusiasm and reassuring them how highly she thought of them all . |
| 6 | Dreamily she thought of Bella , and the fact that she was Johnny 's wife , and the fact , also , that if she accepted Johnny as real then all these other people were real too and not , as she had liked to pretend , fictional characters in some book that she was reading . |
| 7 | Meanwhile she thought about bosses and masses . |
| 8 | Deliberately she thought of the conversation she 'd overheard that morning . |
| 9 | The more she thought about this , the more uncertain she became . |
| 10 | The more she thought about him , the warmer she felt . |
| 11 | The more she thought about it , the more clearly she saw that she must somehow get a warning to Tristram . |
| 12 | It occurred to her that what Pascoe had said earlier was n't at all coy ; in fact , the more she thought about it , the more carefully judged it seemed to be . |
| 13 | Yet the more she thought about it , the more she was inclined to let him have his way . |
| 14 | For all she knew , he could be a white-slave trader … the more she thought about the possibility , the more distinctly possible it became … |
| 15 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 16 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 17 | The more she thought about it , the more certain she became that there was really only one avenue open to her . |
| 18 | The more she thought about it , the more she realised that , as usual , she had let her actions rush ahead faster than her mind could follow . |
| 19 | The more she thought about the situation she 'd somehow landed in , the more determined she became to get out of it . |
| 20 | The more she thought about it , the more her confidence ebbed away until she was ready to believe that her efforts had turned up nothing of positive help . |
| 21 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 22 | But the more she thought of Silas 's kisses the more infuriated she became , and as she recalled her own response her fury turned to bitter humiliation . |
| 23 | Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry . |
| 24 | Clare , who blushed with shame whenever she thought about it , waited anxiously for the result of her tests at St Stephen 's Hospital . |
| 25 | Flinging over in bed for the hundredth time , she tried to ignore the subtle , spreading ache in her stomach whenever she thought about Roman 's last hungrily demanding kiss … |
| 26 | A warm glow of pride settled itself whenever she thought about it — her own business ; she just wished her parents were still alive to witness it , and Mark , of course … |
| 27 | This wild , hectic , almost shocking excitement … a bitter-sweet , desperate longing that seemed to turn her limbs to water whenever she thought about Ross ? |
| 28 | Whenever she thought of Fergus Wolff , this empty battlefield was what she saw . |
| 29 | Whenever she thought of James Halden a shameful wave of physical longing washed over her until she remembered he had used her and discarded her . |
| 30 | All the way home , she practised the words she would speak to Craig Grenfell , she must tell him to leave , to find another place to stay but the feeling of emptiness that swept over her whenever she thought of saying goodbye to him brought tears brimming to her eyes . |