Example sentences of "thought [prep] the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were glinting as he thought about the revenge he could have on the Islington people . |
| 2 | You certainly knew what they thought about the way you were going about your job as Chief Constable . |
| 3 | Mike , beginning to feel some exhilaration as he thought about the piece he would now have to write , and write bloody fast , pushed the thought away . |
| 4 | The more she thought about the situation she 'd somehow landed in , the more determined she became to get out of it . |
| 5 | She gave Jenna a startled look and disappeared , and Jenna thought of the mess she had made of her things . |
| 6 | He thought of the grain he 'd pinched yesterday , spilt and lost . |
| 7 | She thought of the tryst they ’ had made … . |
| 8 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 9 | Deliberately she thought of the conversation she 'd overheard that morning . |
| 10 | He thought of Jessica , thought of the love they had just made , and felt his heart go cold . |
| 11 | She thought of the way he exuded confidence and command , how he 'd earned instant respect in Florian 's , the way people in the bar had respectfully treated him … |
| 12 | Rage welled up in her as she thought of the way he had come to get her in London , so cool , so confident , so very self-assured . |
| 13 | He thought of the action he had instigated . |
| 14 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |
| 15 | But as she hurried up the stairs to the sanctuary of her bedroom , what filled her mind was the stark , appalling thought of the treachery she had so nearly perpetrated on herself . |
| 16 | It was only when he was sitting in the back of the car that he actually thought of the risk he was taking . |
| 17 | She thought of the lecture she had just read him on honesty and trembled . |
| 18 | As she listened to the sweet voices of the children coming from the church , and thought of the pain she had experienced in her short life , tears came to her eyes . |
| 19 | A smile came to his lips as he thought of the thing he had bought Fei Yen that very evening , after he had come from the boy . |
| 20 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 21 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 22 | Sometimes she thought from the way he seemed to watch her that he might like her too but he had never said anything and Sally was beginning to be afraid he never would . |
| 23 | I thought from the discussion we had a month or so ago , that they 've used the eighty three based correction factors , but it maybe something else because the description this morning was given it was some lo other local one . |
| 24 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 25 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 26 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 27 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 28 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 29 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |