Example sentences of "[vb past] thought [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 2 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 3 | Eileen knew what she had thought of the Arbuthnots and their kind , until she fell in love with Philip . |
| 4 | I had thought of the desert as sand , but it was stone ; red stone and harsh dust and a wide , stone sky . |
| 5 | Listening to the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) saying that it was not the Government who had thought of the citizens charter but Mr. Herbert Morrison reminded me that old habits die hard — in particular , the old habit , much beloved of socialist Governments everywhere , of rewriting history . |
| 6 | If Club Med or Universal Studios had thought of the idea first and sited it in Europe , it would probably have attracted government subsidies . |
| 7 | I had thought of the Hobbses as shielding me like parents , but the nursery comfort was illusory . |
| 8 | When the boy , as she had thought of the youth but who was actually seventeen , came into the room he needed no urging to sit at the table ; then grinning at the child , he said , ‘ What 's your name ? ’ |
| 9 | She had no need for speech for she gave birth to — she uttered — The Word … ’ and , standing before the icon , so perfect in its gilded stillness , I had thought of the bodies of men , land-locked and mute , and I had felt sorry for them . |
| 10 | In case of doubt the court has to guess what meaning Parliament would have picked on if it had thought of the point . |
| 11 | It was n't what Peter had had in mind when he had thought of the picnic . |
| 12 | But , by that same morning , Ben Braithwaite had started to believe that he had thought of the cut in wages all by himself . |
| 13 | Twoflower wondered why he had thought of the phrase ‘ a sliver of a scream ’ … and began to wish he had n't . |
| 14 | The CNAA , he had thought at the outset , was something that ‘ ought to happen ’ . |
| 15 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 16 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 17 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 18 | Freud had thought about the myth of Oedipus , and the relationships between parents and children , in 1897 in a letter to Fleiss , and there are explicit formulations of the idea in the Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis , given in 1909 in the United States . |
| 19 | And Rory , throughout his teens , had thought about the struggle sometimes , and determined vaguely one day to be part of the broom that swept the Brits out of his country , and drank and screwed and spent and had terrific crack , and bought the three-eight Webley once , upon a whim . |
| 20 | At best we might get material from which a more or less dubious inference might be drawn as to what the promoters intended or would have intended if they had thought about the matter , and it would , I think , generally be dangerous to attach weight to what some other members of either House may have said . |
| 21 | What she had been used to see every month , postponed she had thought by the excitement , the travel . |