Example sentences of "thought of this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Epicurus did , indeed , place supreme value on ‘ pleasure ’ ; but he thought of this as the calm tranquillity and freedom from anxiety which would be achieved by realizing that there is no life after death , and that we are not subject to outside divine influences . |
| 2 | Charles detected a tendency for his teeth to chatter and grew indignant the more he thought of this flagrant breach of the conventions . |
| 3 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 4 | Fear almost stopped her when she thought of this , but she would n't give in to it , for she could see the smoke billowing up . |
| 5 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 6 | I thought of this hyla as the nymph Echo , a dryad , an invisible sweet voice . |
| 7 | I thought of this and other things that happened over seventy years ago after I went to the supermarket last Friday to do my week 's shopping . |
| 8 | That really made me smile when I thought of this rock'n'roll preamp being used in that situation . |
| 9 | Burn baby , burn : Toni Halliday contemplates the immediate immolation of whoever thought of this ‘ amusing ’ female-torso style cigarette lighter |
| 10 | Sport , little sleep ( never a good sleeper ) , drink ( though he thought of this as a treat for the machine ) , cigarettes ( heavy ) and general hooliganism was punishment . |
| 11 | Perhaps he thought of this too when he climbed on the chair and made a noose at the end of the rope , a very neat noose with the rope bound ten times round the loop in even rings . |
| 12 | As he thought of this he grasped on to it with relief for it seemed to give him a reason to do nothing , though in his heart he knew it was fear , not duty , that prevented him from flying . |
| 13 | I thought of this killer out on the empty , wild moor , and I felt more and more uncomfortable about my surroundings . |
| 14 | Listening to him , Thorkel Fóstri wondered , as he had at Scone , what Thorfinn thought of this , the first of the next generation of rulers . |
| 15 | When questioned further very few of them thought of this God or power as a man , but either as a person without a body or as something like air or gas , and a few said they did not know or that there was no God . |
| 16 | Id be interested to see what Kev thought of this ? ? |
| 17 | She narrowed her eyes and added in clipped tones , ‘ I know you always thought of this as your home and that you never wanted me to be a part of it . |