Example sentences of "he thought [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought about the words in the Book . |
| 2 | He just felt pleased when he thought about the kudos of pulling someone half his age or less . |
| 3 | He thought about the dogs in their holes under the snow , and listened to the wind over the house . |
| 4 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 5 | On the day itself , Norman Mailer , then a juror at the Cannes film festival , was asked what he thought of the movies on offer . |
| 6 | He thought of the calls he must make to tell the other T'ang , but for the moment he felt no impulse towards action . |
| 7 | And Madra there , also , he suddenly remembered , and groaned aloud as he thought of the complications ahead . |
| 8 | He thought of the tons and tons of flammable liquid beneath his feet and shook his head . |
| 9 | He thought of the dinners , for eighteen , twenty , thirty people ; he thought of the dances , and the whisper of music from the ballroom ; of the quiet afternoons he had sometimes spent in his father 's study . |
| 10 | He thought of the dinners , for eighteen , twenty , thirty people ; he thought of the dances , and the whisper of music from the ballroom ; of the quiet afternoons he had sometimes spent in his father 's study . |
| 11 | He thought of the funerals Timothy Gedge hung around . |
| 12 | Last year the award was won by Ernie Acker at Charlbury station , and we asked him what he thought of the awards . |
| 13 | He thought of the days when he had a mother , and friends , and beautiful things in his life . |
| 14 | He thought of the children buried alive at the bottom of the mineshafts . |
| 15 | Karl Marx said long ago , ‘ There is a plank in the mind of every Englishman — ’ ( I do n't know what he thought of the Scots ) — ‘ beyond which it is impossible to penetrate with a new idea . ’ |
| 16 | He thought of the flares bursting like orange plums in the soot-black night , illuminating the trucks , the humped tanks , the upflung arms of waking men shielding their eyes from the glare . |