Example sentences of "thought at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 4 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 5 | A particular substance , tetra-hydro. iso-quinolone ( THIQ ) , was thought at one time to be the active chemical " cause " of addiction but this is no longer thought to be precise cause . |
| 6 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 7 | erm I go along with what erm Simon said about Paul , I 'm I thought at one time that they would go for Cox and him , to be perfectly honest , he 's absolutely right on what he said , and I 'm sure they 're relying on the fact that I believe Paul is going to be a home track and they 're going to pick a lot points up at home . |
| 8 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |
| 15 | He even offered to continue to supply arms — thought at this time the new regime was trying to get the United States to buy back some of the more expensive equipment that the Shah had purchased . |
| 16 | The original trophy that went with the first prize disappeared — it is thought at some time during the eighteenth century — and there was never enough money to replace it . |
| 17 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |