Example sentences of "he thought of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of the Threarah and his wily courtesy . |
| 2 | The Collector 's mind wandered again as he thought of the baptism of his own children how long ago it now seemed that the eldest had been baptized ! |
| 3 | He thought of the cabin up the creek to which his sister had withdrawn at his urging , and he turned to find the track , willing himself to control his horror , to keep moving nimbly and stealthily as if he did not feel unstrung . |
| 4 | The son was cross ; but if he thought of the possibility of keeping his own salary for himself , he never voiced it . |
| 5 | He thought of the man , bereft and incarcerated in that cluttered cottage behind the great dyke of shingle , listening night after night to the never-ceasing moaning of the tide , and brooding on the wrongs , real or imaginary , which could inspire that hate-filled portrait . |
| 6 | When he thought of the law , his chosen profession , his head filled with the savour of dust ; he could taste it on his tongue , mousey and dry , and smell the foist of the archives where he had to pore over the huge books of cases , statutes , precedents . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He thought of the widow in her ramshackle hut at the end of the village and the gratitude in her eyes when he gave her a purse of coins . |
| 9 | On the day itself , Norman Mailer , then a juror at the Cannes film festival , was asked what he thought of the movies on offer . |
| 10 | He thought of the threat from the military . |
| 11 | Only the driver 's expression showed what he thought of the idea of living in a place like that . |
| 12 | He thought of the grain he 'd pinched yesterday , spilt and lost . |
| 13 | He thought of the calls he must make to tell the other T'ang , but for the moment he felt no impulse towards action . |
| 14 | Holly smiled to himself , chuckled softly , because he saw in his mind the face of the man who had brought the food to the hatch , and he thought of the retribution that would fall on the cretin 's shoulders . |
| 15 | And Madra there , also , he suddenly remembered , and groaned aloud as he thought of the complications ahead . |
| 16 | He thought of the ploy . |
| 17 | He thought of his vantage-point and the view through the scope ; he thought of the way the cross-hairs quartered the scene , seeming to draw a victim on to the crux , dead-centre . |
| 18 | He thought of a bullet , and he thought of the chill lead set in the brass cartridge cases of the rifles or machine-guns that watched him . |
| 19 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 20 | He thought of the tons and tons of flammable liquid beneath his feet and shook his head . |
| 21 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He thought of the bruise on Kafy 's shoulder . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He thought of the funerals Timothy Gedge hung around . |
| 26 | Last year the award was won by Ernie Acker at Charlbury station , and we asked him what he thought of the awards . |
| 27 | This itself is suggestive of his lack of interest in the formal rules of Canon Law : he thought of the essence , not the externals . |
| 28 | He thought of the days when he had a mother , and friends , and beautiful things in his life . |
| 29 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 30 | He thought of the future which no longer contained him but which he could still control . |