Example sentences of "thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geraldine sat on the bed and thought for a moment . |
| 2 | Now it belonged to Frankie , and while he secretly warmed himself in its folds he spared little thought for the comfort of its previous owner . |
| 3 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 4 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 5 | He had thought for a moment that Hoomey was going to ask him back , but he knew he was n't the sort of friend that nice mothers were all that pleased to see . |
| 6 | Nutty looked at Nails and thought for one awful moment he was going to burst into tears . |
| 7 | A regular contributor to Radio Four 's Thought for the Day , this witty gentleman can even outquip the presenters , and you have to get up early in the morning to do that . |
| 8 | Although a common form of procedure for research is being recommended here it should not be thought for one moment that a hard and fast programme is being suggested to which every research enquiry should conform . |
| 9 | Actually , scientists thought for many years that whales had no sense of hearing because they had no external ear lobes like ourselves , a clear example of anthropomorphic projection . |
| 10 | She would , not in a hundred years , have ever thought for Tom . |
| 11 | But at the hack of your head you had always thought for rescue , reaching hands . |
| 12 | Waking very cold and aching , Perdita saw little red flames flickering across the great blue arch of sky and thought for a terrified second that she was in the middle of a forest fire . |
| 13 | As they approached from the South , the pilots watched the flyingboat go down and land at Kalafrana , but at that moment Hancock saw two Bf109Es approaching , and thought for a moment that they were about to attack the Hurricanes . |
| 14 | The big man thought for a few seconds , then laughed . |
| 15 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |
| 16 | Every Sunday I also contributed a religious meditation to the New Times of Burma under the heading ‘ Thought for Today ’ , following on a Buddhist meditation for the preceding day . |
| 17 | Philip Crowe , principal of the Salisbury and Wells Theological College , who yesterday gave an impassioned plea for women 's ordination on Radio 4 's Thought For The Day , said : ‘ This is absolutely marvellous . |
| 18 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
| 19 | ‘ Her brother , possibly , but not , I should have thought for long and certainly not at any risk to herself . |
| 20 | Most agreed that they had moments of nostalgia and longing to be back on the island , and one man , when pressed about why he admitted to such feelings , thought for a moment and then said ‘ It was chust a far better place … ’ |
| 21 | But he soon became convinced that the herpes virus , which was thought for a while to be associated with cancer , had in reality nothing to do with the disease . |
| 22 | Cecilia saw the bear and thought for about five seconds that it was real . |
| 23 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 24 | Alice returned to the second coat and her work of balancing on the trestles , and thought for the first time : I 'm silly . |
| 25 | It is we who want broad motorways , cheap coal , instant electricity , subsidised food , and protection from alleged enemies without care for the past or indeed thought for the future . |
| 26 | I stopped to look at them , and thought for a moment they looked like prison doors , hiding evil secrets . |
| 27 | He looked very serious , and thought for a few seconds . |
| 28 | Mr Sowerberry rubbed his chin and thought for a while . |
| 29 | There was a silence , and the Station Master thought for a minute . |
| 30 | She had thought for months of trying to blow the gaff on the fact that she was past marrying off , but it had seemed a lot to put Len through , and her mother was anyway exceptionally good at not acknowledging that a gaff had been blown . |