Example sentences of "thought [prep] all " in BNC.
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1 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |
2 | Now I thought about him , and thought about all the unsolved mysteries of his behaviour . |
3 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
4 | So 1799 was a signal year for W. C. T. in more ways than one : he was now a respectable businessman with a respectable wife , and a Freeman of the City to boot — what can they have thought of all that back in Pig Street , Frome ? |
5 | It is common sense once you see the solution but it is unlikely that you would have thought of all of them a priori . |
6 | Elinor sometimes thought of all the love and the hatred , the treachery and the killing that this hall had undoubtedly seen , when strong men fought hand-to-hand to the death , to protect their women and children . |
7 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
8 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |