Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , it amazes me that none of you has apparently thought of comparing the print-outs of yesterday with today 's work . |
| 2 | Head comes in , has already thought of this , and agrees to organize a collection from staff for fruit or whatever . |
| 3 | It 's so delicious , you 'll wonder why no one has ever thought of it before ! |
| 4 | Nevertheless , she prevaricated as she said , ‘ Aunt Bertha has often thought of you — wondering if you 're all right — ’ |
| 5 | That produced a form of waste that was hot , highly toxic , radioactive ; that will remain dangerous for hundreds of years and that no-one has yet thought of a way of disposing of ? |
| 6 | No one has seriously thought of Mr Kaifu as a two-term prime minister . |
| 7 | ‘ When you talked it was like you 'd just thought of it . |
| 8 | I did n't think that was bad , considering I 'd just thought of it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd already thought of that , ’ Laura told her gloomily . |
| 10 | He 's quite good-looking in a film-starry way — I 'd always thought of him as young . |
| 11 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 12 | He 'd always thought of gypsies as swarthy of complexion , but this girl 's face was pale olive and he knew that if he touched it , it would be as soft as silk . |
| 13 | He 'd always thought of that as a cliché before he met Emily . |
| 14 | He 'd always thought of her as pliable , sexy , more of an ornament than a partner for a man like Adolph Brückner . |
| 15 | Yet he made her feel sorry for Miss Lavant , a woman she 'd hardly thought about before . |
| 16 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 17 | It was the first time I 'd ever thought of the baby as " he " . |
| 18 | I 'm Marty Hunter — ( Marty thought Graham ) — and I just wondered If you 'd ever thought of doing any mob " |
| 19 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 20 | I 'd often thought of doing a TV commercial . |
| 21 | She 'd immediately thought of Jordan . |
| 22 | And the typing college was a come down , I can tell you , from his idea that she would go into a profession ; he 'd even thought of university . |
| 23 | And suddenly I realised that there was a whole lot more going on than I 'd even thought of . |
| 24 | It was a surprise because I 'd barely thought of her since I was fucked by her dog , an incident with which she had become associated in my mind : Helen and dog-cock went together . |
| 25 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 26 | Actually I 'd never thought of being an actress . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd never thought of that , ’ replied Mcduff . |
| 28 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 29 | I 'd never thought of marrying him , he was just a boyfriend , he did n't even seem all that attractive after I got pregnant . |
| 30 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |