Example sentences of "one thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thought they might ponder is to consult the supporters through programmes and fanzines about whether their teams should affect the latest Viscosuisse fabrics cut along more ample lines ( thus disguising the ample Paul Gascoigne ? ) . |
| 2 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 3 | Often , in private , one thought it a pretty silly instinct . |
| 4 | It can both suggest that an effect previously believed to exist does not exist and that one thought not to exist does exist . |
| 5 | One thought the Horizon team made an unnecessary detour here and there . |
| 6 | Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story . |
| 7 | In the 1920s a local man was in a terrible state of nerves and he too visited the bridge with the one thought in his mind . |
| 8 | He swivelled and fired his laspistol towards the tattooed boy in case that one thought to exploit the distraction , burning his target 's hand so that the scum kid dropped his trophy . |
| 9 | ‘ On your way then , lad , and I 'll offer you one thought to tide you over . |
| 10 | Once the therapist has extracted one thought they can find out the one behind it . |
| 11 | Even if one thought that the pursuit of such predictions was useful , a great deal more information would be required , including a knowledge of the extent to which the rules were broken . |
| 12 | First-year students at the polytechnic also felt the teaching to be very similar to school ( or technical college ) teaching ; one thought that polytechnic was a ‘ cross between school and university ’ . |
| 13 | She felt muddled … could n't keep track of one thought for long . |
| 14 | I 'm left with one thought : Creator-man . |
| 15 | The one thought I could not tolerate kept bubbling to the surface : had I really swallowed it ? |
| 16 | And this would be an insupportable thing to know about oneself , if one thought that this implied some superiority over the people around one . |
| 17 | Willy exhibited these symptoms to the most marked degree , which I for one thought odd , since he and Ramsey had often clashed . |
| 18 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 19 | She hung on to one thought determinedly . |
| 20 | Reluctant to brave the corridor again in case the conspirators emerged and caught her , she turned sharply and fled up the tower stairs , just one thought uppermost in her mind . |
| 21 | I will favour the right hon. Gentleman by quoting one thought that was expressed in that article : ’ If the single person discount remains a feature of the tax they will have to create a register — a point Michael Heseltine will eventually have to acknowledge . |
| 22 | their heads just big enough to hold one thought … |
| 23 | The road was too rough for one thought to rest long in mind before it was cannoned out by another . |
| 24 | Despite the joy she had out of being with him on the ‘ Carry On ’ set , she for one thought that he was wasting a great deal of his time . |
| 25 | She got a glimpse of a different life , a different marriage between two good , kind , ordinary people — perhaps not so ordinary when one thought what they had done with their farm . |
| 26 | And I tell you just , what I just wan na do , is give you one one one thought which is in our motion . |
| 27 | It may be nothing or it may be something that Durham Theatre Company , formed one thought to take theatre to places in the county which never have the opportunity to see it , has a new production out soon . |
| 28 | And the other one thought he was good at the buckeye coupling . |
| 29 | One thought in our minds — that awful man |
| 30 | Not Napoleon cos this this one thought it was Napoleon |