Example sentences of "thought [prep] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 5 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 6 | Howard thought for a few moments and then said , ‘ I think I know what time the next plane leaves for London . ’ |
| 7 | ’ He thought for a few moments . |
| 8 | The artist thought for a few moments . |
| 9 | Finding she could n't push the pram up the slope , she thought for a few seconds and then tried to pull it up . |
| 10 | Major Tzann thought for a few seconds . |
| 11 | Aggie thought for a few seconds , ‘ You could come and stay with me . ’ |
| 12 | John thought for a few seconds , |
| 13 | Julia thought for a little while and then produced one word : |
| 14 | Holmes thought for a little while . |
| 15 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 16 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
| 17 | When they said , for example , ‘ in the reign of the King Cheops ’ they thought of a distant event situated in time in a rather vague way . |
| 18 | I thought of a nice name |
| 19 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 20 | She thought of a tired analogy she had often heard , people in a crowded train compared to sardines in a tin . |
| 21 | Yes , and I think I thought of a personal note that , because we do get some good , good appointments . |
| 22 | The day before she left he thought of a new name for his house . |
| 23 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
| 24 | She thought of a beautiful phrase — to comfort his sad heart — and tears came into her eyes . |
| 25 | After coming across a hefty pile of best magazines prior to moving house earlier this year , I thought of a novel idea . |
| 26 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 27 | A sly grin crossed his face as he thought of an alternative billet in which to spend what remained of the night . |
| 28 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 29 | She has noticed ! ’ he thought with a helpless jerk of fear . |
| 30 | Almost as though , Shiona thought with a small shudder , she was mentally totting up the value of the contents of the room . |