Example sentences of "thought of the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of Rory 's hand on her bare stomach , she thought of the two art students with their camera , she saw two brimming glasses of Beamish in the dockside bar , and the light came on . |
| 2 | I thought of the two members of my crew who were dead and remembered that if any of us had deserved to die it was 1 , who was responsible for the disaster . |
| 3 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 4 | This was a return to an area similar to that of my A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry ( 1969 ) , and in fact we thought of the two books as companion volumes , dealing respectively with poetry and prose . |
| 5 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 6 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |