Example sentences of "thought of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you did you know what your father ever thought of the modern coffins ? |
| 2 | She thought of the drowning kittens and wanted to laugh . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 5 | This was a return to an area similar to that of my A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry ( 1969 ) , and in fact we thought of the two books as companion volumes , dealing respectively with poetry and prose . |
| 6 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Constance smiled in the dark as she thought of the chaste kisses she had allowed Nicky . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 16 | She thought of the red roses , and it made her feel quite empty inside . |
| 17 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |