Example sentences of "thought of the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she stepped out into the dark night she thought of the gloomy squalor of Bacon Buildings and the smile left her face . |
| 2 | I thought of the fearful apprehension of the drug smuggler at the start of Midnight Express , his heart thumping , beads of guilty sweat on his lips . |
| 3 | At times he would brood gloomily as he thought of the future course of the Reformation . |
| 4 | I thought of the two members of my crew who were dead and remembered that if any of us had deserved to die it was 1 , who was responsible for the disaster . |
| 5 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 6 | And in the instant of time available to him , he thought of the only place of possible escape from this nightmare . |
| 7 | He thought of the cruel death of Isaac Rosenberg and the death of his father in the breaking of the siege of the Duc Co Special Forces camp . |
| 8 | I thought of the far nurseries of the stars and how many days ' sail through the thin seas of hydrogen would take us beyond the space lamps and the burial grounds of the stars . |
| 9 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 10 | I thought of the little touches of home there would be inside it : the hand-knitted pullover , the familiar English toothpaste , and the razor blades fastened together with elastic bands . |
| 11 | To begin with , liberal theologians thought of the Holy Spirit of God as speaking to contemporary man through those elements in Bible or Church tradition which accorded best with their own insights . |