Example sentences of "[pers pn] thought [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of Tagore who said , ‘ withhold from me the things that man desire and want ; leave me only what they despise and overlook , they will be enough for me . ’ |
| 2 | Even though I could now visualize a cell or a room , and a man chained to a wall , trying to occupy his mind and keep his fears at bay , when I thought of John it was like thinking of him lost in an abstract painting which I did n't understand . |
| 3 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 4 | They please , I thought in context you would have got that . |
| 5 | Corbett let his mind drift , feeling guilty because when he thought about Maeve he also kept remembering Dame Agatha 's angelic face . |