Example sentences of "thought of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She saw by his face that he had not , and grimaced as she thought of the gruesome tasks she was obliged to perform , degrading both for herself and for her far from easy patient . |
| 32 | Lucy giggled as she thought of the small room next to her own . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 35 | And I thought of the other man , the mysterious watcher . |
| 36 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 37 | And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself . |
| 38 | And in the instant of time available to him , he thought of the only place of possible escape from this nightmare . |
| 39 | She thought of the helpful policeman who had told her the wrong day for the train . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 44 | Leonora felt a sudden pang to learn he still thought of the fair Melanie as a Vaughan . |
| 45 | She thought of the inevitable disdain with which her friend would react to the news that Constance had been seduced into a reckless marriage with a virtual stranger . |
| 46 | Then I remembered , the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh , and thought of the quiet convent and cool water . |
| 47 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 48 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Tears filled her eyes again as she thought of the little gravestone in the churchyard : In loving memory of William Richard France-Lynch , 1978–81 . |
| 51 | She thought of the tragic woman who 'd been deserted by her father and had settled for second best . |
| 52 | She already had her travelling companion , Swimmer of Lakes , and if she thought of the wild horses in the valley at all it was simply to wonder about the legend of the tamers : to subdue the spirit of the wild animal ; to be permitted to ride upon its back ; yes , magic would have been necessary in early thought , and cult legends certainly would have grown around the hunters who snared the fast , proud creatures . |
| 53 | He was breathing quickly , his nostrils pinching in as he thought of the coming confrontation with his wife . |
| 54 | He thought of the seventeenth century poisoner , Madame de Brinvilliers , who had run round the hospitals of Paris poisoning people for ‘ practice ’ . |
| 55 | I thought of the empty coal yard , and how much it had not needed fire watching . |
| 56 | He always thought of the Cold War as a deal between cynical power brokers and military-industrial magnates with money to make from mega-deaths . |
| 57 | Constance smiled in the dark as she thought of the chaste kisses she had allowed Nicky . |
| 58 | She sighed as she thought of the constant drudgery . |
| 59 | Making investments was undoubtedly easier then , with potential customers filling the streets and high risk start-ups portrayed as brilliant opportunities for investors , with little thought of the potential losses . |
| 60 | He thought of the last time he 'd seen Dad . |