Example sentences of "he had think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack often thought he was n't quick enough to match Charlie 's easy repartee , but now he had thought of something that would make his friend smile . |
| 2 | He had thought of experimenting with three different subjects — maths , foreign languages and chess — but his financial circumstances in those days did not make it possible . |
| 3 | Nigel could be quite persistent when he had thought of something to make Gina miserable . |
| 4 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 5 | ‘ She touched his organ , and from that bright epoch , even it , the old companion of his happiest hours , incapable as he had thought of elevation , began a new and deified existence . ’ |
| 6 | If only he had thought of recorking his wine after dégorgement , then the perfectly limpid sparkling wine he had managed to achieve for himself and , no doubt , passed on as a ‘ tip ’ to others , would have been available to everybody . |
| 7 | He had thought of her as essentially a private woman who would be very little concerned with her neighbours or their problems . |
| 8 | Willie held the knife above the cake , screwed up his face till he had thought of a wish and then plunged the knife into the icing . |
| 9 | Though both in their early forties when they died , he had thought of them as old . |
| 10 | If he happened to be out when Sien came home , the flowers in front of the window by the wicker chair would let her know he had thought of her . |
| 11 | Until then he had thought of her as sulky , even wilful , and had in truth been no more anxious for the match than she . |
| 12 | His book was almost finished , and he had thought of a title : The Character Of Completeness . |
| 13 | On the day they had gone , when the summer was over and the skies grey and a wind blowing , he had thought of that image . |
| 14 | It would be more than a week since he had thought of Millet . |
| 15 | He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb . |
| 16 | This critic concluded his review by pointing out to his readers what he thought were the real merits of the film for he had thought of it as being ‘ neither capitalistic nor laboristic , but a straight-away drama ’ not at all ‘ depending on any propaganda to arouse the spectator 's interest ’ . |
| 17 | Once he had thought of it he knew he would have to do it . |
| 18 | When Patrick had stormed out of the room , his head pounding , bile in his throat , he had started for his room , but then he had thought of Jane , and he had turned and headed back down the hall towards the room she shared with her sister . |
| 19 | A first-year physics student told me that he had thought of transferring to an arts subject , maybe psychology , in the first few weeks , because : |
| 20 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 21 | ‘ We sang it as a song in Junior School , ’ he admitted , but Anne was still happy that he had thought of it . |
| 22 | There would be a brief but spectacular meteor shower in Lucifer 's upper atmosphere tonight , he thought , wondering if those on Belial would watch and think of them , as he had thought of Paula Engado when she 'd become a shooting star . |
| 23 | He had thought of Doreen 's absences every night , the front-door banging in the early hours of the morning , the whine of a car drawing away from beneath his window . |
| 24 | But , by that same morning , Ben Braithwaite had started to believe that he had thought of the cut in wages all by himself . |
| 25 | I am sure he had thought of an answer to the problem . |
| 26 | It was n't what Peter had had in mind when he had thought of the picnic . |
| 27 | He had thought of it before . |
| 28 | With one last cry she held him impossibly tight , her nails scoring his back , and knew even in her state of mindlessness that Leo had timed himself to her , that even in the grip of his own needs he had thought of her . |
| 29 | Twoflower wondered why he had thought of the phrase ‘ a sliver of a scream ’ … and began to wish he had n't . |
| 30 | It was as painful as hell , and she despised herself for even caring what he had thought of Mark 's abilities , but for some reason she desperately needed to know . |