Example sentences of "never thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They never thought for a moment about reverting to conventional agriculture , although Gareth had come from a research job with ICI . |
| 2 | I NEVER thought for one moment that my life would become bound up with rivers . |
| 3 | I never thought for a minute we 'd come off that green with a shot in hand ; maybe one shot behind , never in front . |
| 4 | ‘ I never thought for a moment he would n't pull through , ’ said Alison . |
| 5 | ‘ I never thought for a moment he would n't pull through , ’ said Alison . |
| 6 | He was chosen for Scotland 's tour of North America in May , played in four of the six games , including the two non-cap Tests , and scored three tries : ‘ I was delighted to go but I never thought for a moment that I would make the Test side . |
| 7 | She liked him , never thought of him as a boyfriend , he was too comfortable . |
| 8 | I never thought of that . |
| 9 | The one thing we never thought of was to check the wheels . |
| 10 | Yes ! she was beautiful but above all she was blessed and kind and sweet , and I never thought of her as beautiful . |
| 11 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 12 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 13 | Grayson played soccer for Parklands High School before going on to Preston College where he played a little rugby in 1989 but never thought of taking up the game . |
| 14 | He never thought of performing again , or of serious music . |
| 15 | ‘ We never thought of that , ’ Cyril admitted . |
| 16 | You never thought of O as someone who was with people or who went home with people , and he never seemed to be looking round for someone all the time , which is how most of us must have appeared . |
| 17 | There are lots of ways to walk to Fort William if that 's what you fancy , except now one of them is littered with lots of wooden posts with painted thistles , and hundreds of people trudging about who never thought of walking to Fort William until someone gave them the West Highland Way guide book for their Christmas . |
| 18 | ‘ He never thought of himself . |
| 19 | Nearly all these men were poor except Seneca whose attitude was that of a poor man , and Tagore who never thought of money . |
| 20 | Some never thought of planning their lives and went on dancing until no more work was offered . |
| 21 | Why he or the Queen never thought of searching for the King is a mystery . ’ |
| 22 | I never thought of that . |
| 23 | I thought I 'd exhausted every possibility , rivals of every pedigree from the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies to a rough-trade gamekeeper out at Shotover , but I never thought of family . |
| 24 | Forever shifting ; for , as nothing for nothing , not a fingernail , you just never thought of being without meat on your arse , and how you missed the padding . |
| 25 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 26 | I never thought of getting old . |
| 27 | Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken , immensely regrettable , brought about by fear and greed . |
| 28 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 29 | I never thought of that angle . ’ |
| 30 | Twenty years ago the city 's population never thought of spending a day at the beach . |