Example sentences of "[coord] thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 2 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 3 | For one thing , besides ‘ thought ’ , a further essential property in our idea of mind is the ‘ power of exciting motion in body , by will , or thought ’ . |
| 4 | And the pretty new mugs were a symbol , something Dorothea would never have found or thought of for herself , for they were hand-thrown pottery , and she had always been brought up to fine-spun china . |
| 5 | It has to be designed or thought out carefully so that conscious decisions can be made about it . |
| 6 | Like the rest of us , he knew , or thought he knew , that in the 18th century ‘ the riot was probably a more effective curb on the government ’ than either the Lords or the House of Commons — ‘ England 's strongest countervailing force ’ . |
| 7 | No one among the instructors or instructees at London 's trendy Pineapple Dance studios had heard of these things , or thought the idea would catch on . |
| 8 | The problem for many organisations is that little time , or thought , is given to this aspect of the firm 's infrastructure . |
| 9 | First of all , he was answering ( or thought he was answering ) an appeal for help and support against the Turks from the Byzantine emperor — the Christian west should sustain the Christian east . |
| 10 | ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 11 | And , of course , he had — or thought he had — control of the Worm , the legend come alive . |
| 12 | They are usually overheard and slip into our own use without any effort or thought . |
| 13 | The nerve strain had been bad , and these were not men with the mental resources to immerse themselves in books or thought . |
| 14 | The Hindus have discovered that the Absolute can only be realized or thought of , or stated through the relative . |
| 15 | It was never suggested , or thought of , that Dinah should return and look after her own progeny . |
| 16 | It was while she was trying to decide this one that she heard , or thought she heard , a faint clop of a hoof . |
| 17 | After what he had told me , or thought he had told me , it must have seemed reasonable . |
| 18 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 19 | Experience such as Lexandro had gained , or thought he had gained , in the nerve-glove … |
| 20 | She fell towards them , wishing she had the energy to turn her gaze away from this blankness , but as he moved closer to her a little light caught his cheek and she saw , or thought she saw , tears there , spilling from those dark eyes . |
| 21 | More urban patients attended a hospital based diabetic clinic and this may be one reason why such patients had less unrecognised retinopathy , although hospital attendance is not always welcomed or thought necessary by patients . |
| 22 | Because I knew there was 1000 metres — or thought there was — I flew a normal approach rather than a dedicated short field landing . |
| 23 | One set of reactions to a traumatic experience are termed ‘ positive ’ , a non-evaluative term , and consist of compulsions to repeat an action or thought , and fixation at an early stage of development . |
| 24 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 25 | Students are often asked to criticise such and such an author 's views , or to appraise critically the outcome of a particular idea or thought . |
| 26 | ‘ Or thought you had . |
| 27 | Sometimes the author 's identity is given away by some small detail reflecting a habit of expression or thought , and this seems to confirm that each writer has a linguistic " thumbprint " an individual combination of linguistic habits which somehow betrays him in all that he writes . |
| 28 | we have ever had or thought about , practically . |
| 29 | Preston knew what this was about now , or thought he did . |
| 30 | Many of them were predictably connected with the murder at the Turk 's Head and what he had seen , or thought he had seen , one night on the railway embankment that ran behind it . |