Example sentences of "thought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 2 | Young Michael Portillo , the chief secretary to the Treasury , struck a permanent frown , and Kenneth Clarke , the Home Secretary , stifled a yawn or two and when he thought no-one was looking . |
| 3 | We were both strong healthy girls at the time , and thought nothing of the dream ; it was just a curiosity ; but she did in fact die two years later — very suddenly , very unexpectedly , of an infection . |
| 4 | Most thought nothing of it , and clearly the RUC did not anticipate any trouble . |
| 5 | Rixi certainly had a voluminous ego , and thought nothing of confiding that a team mate was ‘ a selfish bitch ’ . |
| 6 | And it 's so odd , it 's hard now when somebody says , ‘ What was it like ? ’ or says , ‘ What did she use to wear ? ’ because of course we all saw her all the time and thought nothing of it , saw her at the very least once a week ( missing service , it was called , if you went a week without visiting , and it was certain to be discussed amongst the congregation when you did finally show up ) , it 's just very odd for me to think that you were never there and that this is all strange to you when to us it was just an ordinary life . |
| 7 | Major routes were cart-tracks and marauding bandits and unscrupulous innkeepers thought nothing of robbery and murder . |
| 8 | Well , I thought nothing of it , because she 's always palled up with a lot of English chaps since she was up at St Andrews and there was the odd Michael among them . |
| 9 | He thought nothing of it at the time . |
| 10 | The British Rail employee thought nothing of it . |
| 11 | I had already observed it in hotel saunas and swimming-pools in Germany , where men and women sat and swam together in the nude and thought nothing of it . |
| 12 | Gandalf remarks at the same time that he sent Gwaihir the eagle to watch the River ; presumably he was the eagle Aragorn saw , but thought nothing of , as he stared out from Amon Hen on the first page of The Two Towers . |
| 13 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 14 | It was possible they thought nothing of the sort , but she still felt she had to do something to show she was not entirely alone and friendless . |
| 15 | Ghislaine Maxwell thought nothing of blowing £2,500 on a no-expense-spared trip to the States at the weekend . |
| 16 | I thought nothing of it , just that whoever closed the house up had overlooked it . |
| 17 | I thought nothing of it ; it was all a part of the selection process and the more extreme it proved itself to be , the happier I felt , for I was enjoying the feeling of succeeding and managing while others failed . |
| 18 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 19 | But now she thought nothing of it . |
| 20 | I thought nothing of that incident until , maybe a year later , there it was installed and detailed in my mind . |
| 21 | In her early childhood , a threepenny piece had seemed like a fortune , whereas Félix Verveine 's rich clients thought nothing of paying 3,000 francs to be dressed by him . |
| 22 | He was , moreover , an extremely wealthy young man who thought nothing of taking a string of polo ponies wherever he went . |
| 23 | I thought nothing of it , but back in the UK I noticed the bite was still bleeding , and as I looked , this little thing came to the surface and popped down again . |
| 24 | There was no er you , you thought nothing about it . |
| 25 | Even then , still feverish with desire , she thought nothing of it , stepping forward slightly to kiss him on his neck . |
| 26 | True , he had become used to being interrupted — there were , in the category of interrupters , young feckless poets who thought nothing of calling and expecting to be subsidised without there being any thought of reimbursement . |
| 27 | I did n't know the surname of the people who 'd taken you , only your first name , Robbie , and so when you turned up in school I thought nothing of it . |
| 28 | ‘ She was adamant that she would wait for you , however long you were in returning ’ — she thought nothing of it . |
| 29 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 30 | ‘ People barely had enough food to live on , but thought nothing of bringing him into their homes and feeding him and giving him somewhere to sleep . |