Example sentences of "at [art] thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not just at contemplation of the glass but at the thought of its being here , in the flat , with me . |
| 2 | Revulsion at the thought that I am responsible for it . |
| 3 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 4 | And the exhibition would be important , she told herself , when a flow of desire swept her away at the thought of being with Lucy , time allotted to their togetherness . |
| 5 | ‘ I adore you , your body drives me wild with desire , I live for the light in your eyes , my whole being lights up at the thought of you . |
| 6 | Hong Kong government officials shudder privately at the thought of having to organise the allocation . |
| 7 | I felt strangely repelled at the thought of eating meat . |
| 8 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 9 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 10 | In his introduction to the privately printed edition of Pansies , for instance , Lawrence castigates Swift for his ‘ gnashing insanity ’ , his ‘ insolent and sickly squeamish mind ’ , at the thought that ‘ Celia shits ’ . |
| 11 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 12 | She felt infantilised by them , but also felt bitterly that they were not fair , and she was bored and frightened at the thought of remaining bored all her life . |
| 13 | One more guilty secret that Maggie felt obliged to keep from everyone was the deep fear and disgust that she felt at the thought of sexuality . |
| 14 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 15 | Incidentally , I am not sure that Cameron should admit this fact since it will make anyone who wants to buy her movie positively glow with pleasure at the thought of paying her practically nothing for it . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 17 | Bond was smiling , presumably at the thought that he had beaten his long-time rival Syd Fischer whose 79ft Ragamuffin finished next . |
| 18 | And then the Greens ' past caught up with them — or , more accurately , was put on display by the government parties — and the Social Democrats retreated rapidly in case the electorate took fright at the thought of a pact with such a dubious , anarchic bunch . |
| 19 | True , there would be argument about how or whether Iraq was to be made to conform with clauses in the 11 other relevant Security Council resolutions and horror at the thought of the Iraqi regime surviving with its army and air force still largely undestroyed . |
| 20 | ‘ When I first knew you , you would have been full of despair and melancholy at the thought of clerical life , but now though there is a faint hint of it you are full of hope and joy . ’ |
| 21 | After the Oval Test David Gower murmured that West Indies must be ‘ quaking in their boots ’ at the thought of England 's forthcoming visit , a characteristically ironic piece of Gower humour . |
| 22 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |
| 23 | He shuddered at the thought of all the potential conflict situations ahead . |
| 24 | His balls ached at the thought of her . |
| 25 | By the end of the century , use of drugs in cases of terminal illness was more common ; but many would have shaken their heads at the thought of patients dying drugged , as is the norm today . |
| 26 | None of it removed the nagging misery from her mind , the horror at the thought of Eleanor Thorne , sweet-natured as she was , being consigned to a mental hospital for geriatrics , to a public ward in a public bed , her possessions named with white tapes , her false teeth removed , her talk and actions , perhaps even her death , made common property . |
| 27 | Her face flamed at the thought of it . |
| 28 | To follow our example through , leaving school is often a traumatic time : there is usually much regret but , on the other hand , there is also great excitement at the thought of doing new things and meeting new people at college or at work or wherever the next part of our life takes us . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly this can lead to a great deal of guilt and remorse at the thought of things left unsaid , or perhaps an argument that had taken place just before the person left the house , never to return . |
| 30 | That is why it is possible for a Christian in particular to feel at one and the same time joyful because the person who has died has entered eternal life , and overwhelmingly sad , or guilty , or relieved at the thought that they have died and the survivor is left with vast changes to absorb into their life pattern . |