Example sentences of "he thought of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of Sophie in his arms , the cord falling on to her neck . |
| 2 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 3 | He thought of Julian in her drab housewife 's gown , with her still , tense body and her hungry eyes , and he said , hardly knowing why , or whether it was mischief in him or mercy : ‘ If you need me , apply to the girl . |
| 4 | He thought of Mrs Wright up in Jubilee Wood , looking for the fox . |
| 5 | No he thought of England as Magna Carta and Shakespeare and Churchill and Milton and the rule of law — a lot of great ideas and ideals that maybe you were going to just crumple and throw away . ’ |
| 6 | He thought of the old man , and he thought of Sien . |
| 7 | In this I was no different from Michael , but where he thought of eagles , I thought of dolphins . |
| 8 | He thought of Alan Millet … did n't know why , could n't place the trigger that led him to Alan Millet and a pub in the Elephant and Castle south of the Thames . |
| 9 | And suddenly with the woman 's cheese plant tickling his ear he thought of Lee up in Jubilee Wood , running down the ride howling . |
| 10 | Momentarily his mind strayed and he thought of Fei Yen and the child in her belly . |
| 11 | He thought of Hugo , who had revolutionised his own thinking , who had made him challenge and question for the first time . |
| 12 | He thought of Hugo 's ability to excite interest , to stimulate thought . |
| 13 | He saw images : a ruined tower — and he thought of those black gaps behind the Eaton Square terrace ; death by drowning — and he thought of Hugo Glendinning ; a hanged man — and he thought of his father 's cadre ; two lovers — he thought of himself and Isobel ; a king of cups , a queen of diamonds — he thought of nothing . |
| 14 | He thought of Jos , Emily and Alice as his friends , and yet how could he trust them until he knew the truth of the incident ? |
| 15 | Then he thought of Victor , of what he and Anna and the kids would be feeling . |
| 16 | He thought of Rose 's lineage where the power to hurt — and be hurt — was strong . |
| 17 | Lowell 's conscience ebbed and flowed when he thought of Ballater and the old man 's anxiety . |
| 18 | He thought of Cicero . |
| 19 | He thought of Andrei Gromyko , the great survivor of the different regimes that had followed the revolution . |
| 20 | And he thought of home , of New Haven , and Nantucket , and Yale and the White House . |
| 21 | Mr Rose asked Marcus what he thought of when he thought of home . |
| 22 | He thought of Mitch . |
| 23 | He thought of his bed at the Rorim ; then he thought of Madra in it , her warmth under him and her hands on his back , her hair in his mouth . |
| 24 | And now , as he sat staring fixedly at the floral configuration on the faded green carpet , he felt a little sad as he thought of Laura , his wife for only the last couple of years . |
| 25 | Again he thought of meringues . |
| 26 | He thought of Beryl and the need to come to grips with the Garland set-up as it had been before the old man 's death . |
| 27 | He thought of Lucia 's mobile mouth , her often oblique wit , and dreaded that she might start to question , and come to the wrong person 's notice . |
| 28 | He thought of Jazz being presented with a cross-eyed , spotty , knock-kneed , gook-speaking bride from the Punjab and having to go along with that . |
| 29 | Mick stared hungrily at her breasts : small , pale , and tight , like under-ripe fruit … he thought of Amanda … forbidden fruit . |
| 30 | As he walked , he thought of Bathsheba . |