Example sentences of "thought [prep] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 2 | His eyes were glinting as he thought about the revenge he could have on the Islington people . |
| 3 | You certainly knew what they thought about the way you were going about your job as Chief Constable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The more she thought about the situation she 'd somehow landed in , the more determined she became to get out of it . |
| 6 | She thought about the men she had met . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought for the £48 you got the sheep as well as the quota . ’ |
| 8 | She gave Jenna a startled look and disappeared , and Jenna thought of the mess she had made of her things . |
| 9 | He thought of the grain he 'd pinched yesterday , spilt and lost . |
| 10 | He thought of the calls he must make to tell the other T'ang , but for the moment he felt no impulse towards action . |
| 11 | She thought of the tryst they ’ had made … . |
| 12 | They exchanged a long look as they both thought of the kisses they had shared , and Shelley 's furious rebuke . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She thought of the times she had put her hand into Nick 's , how she had sat beside him on the grass only half an hour ago . |
| 15 | Deliberately she thought of the conversation she 'd overheard that morning . |
| 16 | He thought of Jessica , thought of the love they had just made , and felt his heart go cold . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 20 | He thought of the action he had instigated . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | you thought of the classics you do , podgy country maiden |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was only when he was sitting in the back of the car that he actually thought of the risk he was taking . |
| 25 | She thought of the lecture she had just read him on honesty and trembled . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 29 | When she thought of the baths she had wallowed in at home , the scented soaps and thick towels , the perfumes and the lotions , she wanted to cry . |
| 30 | She thought of the people she liked , whose company she enjoyed . |