Example sentences of "thought [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if it can — there is a case for that too — it might as well be thought about first . |
| 2 | I 've thought about next thing they 'll do is holograms next . |
| 3 | Engineers , it was often said , only carried out ideas that other people had thought of first . |
| 4 | Unlike these cities , Dublin is thought of first and foremost for its literary heritage , rather than for its art . |
| 5 | If your household is likely to expand in any way it might be cheaper in the long run to buy a larger model than the more modest affair you had thought of first . |
| 6 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 7 | Is it because she 's thought of last year 's holidays ? |
| 8 | Or so he had thought at first , hearing her voice , looking round the well-furnished rooms , the shelves full of old china figures , in her polished house . |
| 9 | They have generally been found by the chance of fieldwork and aerial reconnaissance and many are awaiting discovery ; when they are studied in detail they are often found to be much larger than thought at first , covering areas , in some cases , of over 100 acres . |
| 10 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 11 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 12 | He had thought at first that the man was lost and required instructions , but realised after the words had blown away that it was a quiet inquiry for cash . |
| 13 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |