Example sentences of "i [adv] thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it would n't be me cos I 'm , I 'm doing it this year and I only thought of it too late |
| 2 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 3 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 4 | I suddenly thought of a way I could help Herbert . |
| 5 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 6 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 7 | I do n't know I just thought about it be quite funny . |
| 8 | Well I just thought as a woman not , you know as a person |
| 9 | ‘ You mean I just thought of you and there you were ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Sorry , Mum , I just thought of something . |
| 11 | idea to get it going and get it off the ground even if you you put your beer on at , well I just thought of couple Boddingtons put their they 're they 're gon na put their , they 're gon na put there 's at a pound a pint . |
| 12 | So I just thought of my granddad . |
| 13 | Ooh I just thought of summat you |
| 14 | You know I just thought of something really stupid |
| 15 | I could not be happy doing that , but as a pop singer I was in my element , because really all I d I did n't even think of it as singing , I thought of it , when I performed on stage as a pop singer I just thought of of it really of making love to the audience . |
| 16 | I just thought of something , what happens |
| 17 | ‘ I had them on one night at the South Bank Poly and I just thought to myself , ‘ I ca n't be bothered with this , I really ca n't ’ . |
| 18 | He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’ |
| 19 | It was the first time in my life I ever thought of Diana as beautiful . |
| 20 | You turned to me , and encouraged me , before I ever thought of you ! ’ |
| 21 | But er , I never heard of them if they did and er , I mean I , I used to involve meself not in politics or anything like that is the last thing I ever thought of involving meself in but er , I did er , sort er , well being on the milk round you used to see the people in , because they come to door to bring a jug you see and you , you talk to people and you know they were , er were sensible and they were , were should I say soft or had no er conversation at all like , you know . |
| 22 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 23 | The mighty Thames had dignity and sober beauty but , despite Wordsworth 's sonnet , I always thought of it as business-like , the powerful engine-room of the city . |
| 24 | The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us . |
| 25 | He was pressed for a date and told ‘ before tonight I always thought of you as a child — but you 're not . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I always thought of ‘ Sonnet ’ as an art poem , ’ said Joe . |
| 27 | I always thought of it as a loan . |
| 28 | Aunt Ilsa was a large , loud woman of forbiddingly intense bonhomie ; I always thought of her as being the most remote outpost of the McHoan clan ( unless you counted the still purportedly peripatetic Uncle Rory ) ; a stout bulwark of a woman who for me at least — had always personified the dishevelled ramifications of our family . |
| 29 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 30 | I never had an hour 's happiness with her , but I still thought about her , day and night , and my dearest wish was to marry her . |