Example sentences of "thought with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought with disdain of the average British couple filling a bed with their protuberances . |
| 2 | We Anglo-Irish are a dying breed , Alec thought with despair . |
| 3 | He thought with warmth of her certain approach . |
| 4 | Eve was always so definite , Benny thought with admiration . |
| 5 | That should get rid of him , he thought with malice . |
| 6 | The grey eyes shot across to her again , and Alyssia thought with shock that she did n't . |
| 7 | Someone , I thought with illumination , who knew how easily Olympia had died from hands round the neck . |
| 8 | Sometimes , as the wind blew round the house , I imagined I heard his voice outside , and I thought with horror of the young man who ate boys ' hearts . |
| 9 | Anna Bouverie thought with revulsion of the bags of jumble lurking in the Rectory garage . |
| 10 | As it was , she thought with longing of Antonia and the informality of her school in New York where teachers could even on occasion be construed as friends . |
| 11 | This , I thought with relief and enjoyment , was some carrier pigeon .. |
| 12 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |
| 13 | And , she thought with relief , if new evidence had turned up in France , it might mean that Veronica had had nothing to do with her husband 's death . |
| 14 | Often , now , she thought with wonder that she almost had n't gone … |
| 15 | And I never liked dolls when I was a little girl , she thought with wonder . |
| 16 | He wants me , she thought with panic , and then hot on the heels of that thought came another ; he wants me because he 's spent the afternoon and evening with the woman he loves but ca n't have , and so he wants to release some of that frustration on me . |
| 17 | Sometimes , before he drank the fourth or fifth glass of Côtes-du-Rhone that would incapacitate him , he thought with guilt of the Flanders fields , with impotence of the forests where wolves ranged , — with the sense of temptation , secret delight , and energy welling up from unknown sources of Gauguin 's cold bluster , of Vincent 's two voices . |
| 18 | He thought with pity of her future , as he knew her marriage to Troy could not be happy for long . |
| 19 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 20 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 21 | There was a lot more to this , Wexford thought with frustration , than met the eye . |
| 22 | Three hundred , he thought with pride , against four thousand . |
| 23 | Only a few — men like my uncle , Alec thought with pride — resisted the offer . |
| 24 | She had moved quickly since learning of Marek 's accident , Blanche thought with pride . |
| 25 | Oh yes , she thought with honesty . |
| 26 | They might have joked about his shortcomings as a husband and lover , he thought with anger and frustration building up inside him . |
| 27 | She thought with envy of Jasper in his cell . |
| 28 | He thought with envy of the young locum doctor standing in for him at home , seeing his patients at this very moment , and then he thought of his ex-wife , and his ex-cat , which used to sleep on their bed , and then with interest and longing of flukes , the flukes of absorption that can at least put the unforgettable at some merciful remove . |
| 29 | She thought with compassion and understanding of his anger and his incomprehension ; and his fear . |
| 30 | Though I am not particularly a Christian , I thought with sadness of my beloved dead . |