Example sentences of "[pron] thought for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 2 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 3 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 4 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 5 | Finding she could n't push the pram up the slope , she thought for a few seconds and then tried to pull it up . |
| 6 | ’ He thought for a few moments . |