Example sentences of "thought [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These documents probably represented the more important business of the day matters which Secretary Cromwell and Lord Treasurer Burghley thought worth a special note . |
| 2 | And he thought about the endless mystery of objects . |
| 3 | The next day I thought about the possible dangers on the island . |
| 4 | After Lulu had rung off , Charlotte thought about the four letters Beatrix had left with her and reflected that the contents of two were still a complete mystery . |
| 5 | He thought about the long , long fall and then the flames , way below . |
| 6 | He thought about the long hours , the continuous toil , the mistakes , the mishaps , the inefficiency and the constant battle to build what he now saw before him . |
| 7 | I thought about the early Scottish settlers of the Great Plains of America who endured terrible confusions because of the pure space they had never experienced before , except perhaps at sea . |
| 8 | On my way upstairs I thought about the famous pianist . |
| 9 | As he drew to a halt in front of the boomgate he thought about the unacceptable quantities of low-level toxic waste being expelled daily into the atmosphere by avaricious chemical companies with scant regard for the safety and welfare of future generations . |
| 10 | I thought about the real taxi-drivers in London who took parties of kids to the seaside on day trips each year and realized just what courage was . |
| 11 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 12 | And another , secondary spasm , when he thought about the first one , and realized that he was more appalled by vulgarity than he was by death . |
| 13 | He thought about the two girls in the shop doorway , surprised by the detailed impression they had left on his memory . |
| 14 | They had left the hospital grounds now , and she thought about the two suitcases in the back of the car . |
| 15 | Jess thought about the one and sixpence she 'd had already without permission . |
| 16 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 17 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |
| 18 | I thought about the good-hearted couple inside its walls , and suddenly they seemed unimportant . |
| 19 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |
| 20 | As he lay in the marine blue bath ( matching the marine blue wash-basin and separate lavatory ) , laced with Juliet 's bubble bath , Charles thought about the Steen situation . |
| 21 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 22 | At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him . |
| 23 | He smiled as he thought about the previous night . |
| 24 | Marcus thought about the previous night . |
| 25 | He thought about the soft ringing of the telephone bell , and the quiet whisper when he answered it . |
| 26 | Finlayson thought for a good long time , while he stared at Callaghan 's bright new buttons . |
| 27 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 28 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 29 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 30 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |