Example sentences of "she had [adv] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed too young and vibrant for work she had previously thought to be the province of uniformed men with starched collars and even stiffer demeanours . |
| 2 | Since the stone had left her hand she had scarcely thought about what might be happening in her father 's house . |
| 3 | She had even thought he liked her ! |
| 4 | One girl told me she had even thought family planning clinics were where a woman went with her husband and children to plan their future together . |
| 5 | Not that she had even thought of complaining . |
| 6 | She had already thought ahead . |
| 7 | It confirmed what she had already thought . |
| 8 | She remembered how she had ridiculously thought meeting him had left her tingling , and was then able to scoff at such a fanciful notion . |
| 9 | And she had also thought that was all it was , she acknowledged wearily . |
| 10 | Phoebe was surprised ; she had somehow thought that after Rachel 's sterling conduct of the night before , she would now take charge , go on looking after them all , manage everything for them and leave her free to walk the road that she had to walk . |
| 11 | And she had somehow thought that he would have known that she could not go . |
| 12 | She had carefully thought out what she was going to say , but when , in the firelight , she looked into his dark-fringed eyes , she forgot her rehearsed words . |
| 13 | She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her . |
| 14 | She had initially thought he might have come to reclaim the Madam 's brothel — in which case he was going to have a mysterious and fatal accident . |
| 15 | Anna thought of the funeral she had not been to , she had often thought about it , the strange people and strange cats who attended it . |
| 16 | She had often thought of it herself , had once or twice in low or high moments suggested it . |
| 17 | She had often thought of it and each time she did Stephen 's face came before her eyes , as clear as some mystic 's vision , the most vulnerable face she had ever seen , the face of a brave child . |
| 18 | It was that detached , aloof quality of his , she had often thought , that had originally attracted her so fatally to him . |
| 19 | Alyssia ended up looking forward to her lunch with André far more eagerly than she had originally thought possible . |
| 20 | She could n't believe that she had actually thought him human occasionally . |
| 21 | She had actually thought of asking for no less than John now proposed ; so why did it feel like a slap in the face ? |
| 22 | Sitting on the train she had suddenly thought that it was not worth it . |
| 23 | She was drawn unquestionably to the appearance of things , though she was aware that she had as yet much ground to cover , and that she had followed many a false trail ; she remembered with particular regret the quantities of eyeshadow which she had once thought desirable , and the pendant earrings of the same epoch . |
| 24 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 25 | They were not , as she had once thought , well suited . |
| 26 | Although Jamie was no longer as vital an interviewee as she had once thought , it was silly to antagonize him . |
| 27 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 28 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 29 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 30 | More than she had ever thought possible . |