Example sentences of "thought [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought about it without finding any kind of answer , and then she thought about the futures of her nursery-school children and others among the children of Dynmouth . |
| 2 | I thought about it as men playing music , I did n't think about it as women playing music , especially rock . |
| 3 | He thought about it over the weekend and accepted . |
| 4 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 5 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 6 | They thought about it for a while . |
| 7 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 8 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 9 | I thought about it for a while and then telephoned him to say that I could suggest a pretty easy solution , and indicated to him what it was . |
| 10 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 11 | Lydia thought about it for a while , before she spoke . |
| 12 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , I was covering them today and — ’ he thought about it for a second — ‘ twice last week . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We thought about it for quite some time . ’ |
| 15 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 16 | " Maybe it would look different to you if you thought about it in English , " Mr. Mendez said and watched him closely . |
| 17 | I 've got the other side , I thought about it in town , I thought next year I will |
| 18 | Oh she says , well I 'm sorry Mr , I never thought about it like that , you see . |
| 19 | " He may have made it , but Fiver thought of it for us , " answered Hazel . |
| 20 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 21 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 22 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 23 | Somebody thought of it at an editorial conference , and Muggins here had to ring round all these celebrities to get comments . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought of it at once when you made your enquiries . |
| 25 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 26 | He was wearing his captain 's uniform with meticulous correctness but with a consciously satirical air , ‘ as though he thought of it as fancy dress . ’ |
| 27 | Or rather , they would now be on their way back , since they had decided ( Franca could imagine the little conversation , she thought of it as a ‘ little ’ conversation ) to stay away only one night , instead of the three nights originally planned . |
| 28 | In my mood of delight , I thought of it as a beautiful idea for these were roads that go nowhere , nowhere that could interest men . |
| 29 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 30 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |