Example sentences of "had [adv] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the kindest , most generous of men , and spread great happiness ( Jane had only to think of him to cheer herself up ) — but was himself a tragic figure , tied to a wife he did not love . |
| 2 | In the past she had only to think of being in an enclosed space and she would feel panic rising within her . |
| 3 | Driving back from Newhaven to Tunbridge Wells that afternoon , he had only to think of the empty house and the solitary evening awaiting him at Farriers to rebel against caution and risk a diversion to Ockham House . |
| 4 | But I was told that since I was so keen to have these things I had better think about how we would use them when the time came . |
| 5 | Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy . |
| 6 | Fred had already thought of it and shook his head . |
| 7 | But Louise had already thought of that . |
| 8 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 9 | ‘ The priapic practitioner , ’ said Lydia , who had just thought of this appellation . |
| 10 | Since the stone had left her hand she had scarcely thought about what might be happening in her father 's house . |
| 11 | Sarah had hardly thought about her brother yet , but she did wonder when he missed his tea . |
| 12 | But then she had been thirty , and then thirty-three , and the panic that overtakes women of that age , even in the nineteen seventies , had come upon her , and the desire to have a child , which she had hardly thought about before . |
| 13 | Until now she had hardly thought of Adamus . |
| 14 | She had always thought of Jack as a Greek hero , indeed as that particular hero . |
| 15 | When Mountbatten flew off to India , he thought of himself as he had always thought of himself , as a leader of men . |
| 16 | I should explain that I never once thought that he should ‘ give way to me ’ — as Nonni said he should — because I was ill ; only because , as I told him , I had always thought of him as ‘ a reasonable human being with some pretensions to morality ’ . |
| 17 | When I actually began to realize that there were advantages to being gay , that changed my whole attitude — up till then I had always thought of it as something to be sorry for , to apologize for . |
| 18 | At least , so Marco said , and expatiated freely on the idea of a performance he had always thought of mounting there , a mood piece , a son et lumière . |
| 19 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 20 | She had always thought of her father as attractive , even handsome , though she knew not everyone did . |
| 21 | She had always thought of herself as singular , as Jacob 's only daughter . |
| 22 | Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was . |
| 23 | I had always thought of Italy as my spiritual home . |
| 24 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 25 | Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful . |
| 26 | He had always thought of it as a superficial and outmoded gesture found only in old novels . |
| 27 | So no bug-eyed monsters which I had always thought to be the cheapest form of science fiction . |
| 28 | But at the hack of your head you had always thought for rescue , reaching hands . |
| 29 | Oh , yes ? ' ) asking him whether he had ever thought of going round the world in 80 days . |
| 30 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |