Example sentences of "thought of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 2 | Sense of pleasure at thought of someone trying to imagine glass only from notes in Green Box . |
| 3 | ‘ We thought of that , sir , ’ said the inspector , a touch of melancholy in his voice . |
| 4 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 5 | Suddenly I thought of Anne and felt impelled to rebel . |
| 6 | She liked him , never thought of him as a boyfriend , he was too comfortable . |
| 7 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 8 | Jay realised she was flattered at being asked , realised that Lucy thought of her as somehow daringly on the wrong and the right side of the track all at the same time . |
| 9 | Two weeks later it snowed , Jay thought of the butterfly as the thick white flakes tumbled around . |
| 10 | As May Sarton had said ( and Jay thought of May Sarton as a cross between a saint and a guru ) : The muse is always female . |
| 11 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 12 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 13 | He thought of trying this fancy on Cameron but his face looked so closed and dark , eyes narrowed and mouth-corners turned right down , that it forbade pleasantry . |
| 14 | This was uncomfortably like Cameron 's thought of yesterday and he shrank from admitting it . |
| 15 | He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’ |
| 16 | I thought of making soup with these , but we 'd lose the delicacy of the flavour . ’ |
| 17 | So the word ‘ red ’ means red because thought of the word tends to be succeeded by a mental image of the colour , or vice versa . |
| 18 | Remember I thought of having him in Ireland - I wish I had . |
| 19 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 20 | He made no secret of what he thought of as the poverty of American culture . |
| 21 | Although we could n't speak the language , there were enough ‘ … issimos ’ attached to the adjectives to give a good idea of what the locals thought of the route , and the frequent appearance of numbers like VIII , VII+ , A4 and A3 on the topo seemed more in keeping with our previous experience than the more modest gradings given by Ron James . |
| 22 | I thought of the example of Evan 's life . |
| 23 | But , as Lodge says , ‘ he was thinking his way , with the minimum of intellectual and material support , through the questions which preoccupy us , decades before we even thought of them . ’ |
| 24 | I thought of the question as rhetorical , but his reply was ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 25 | Who thought of it ? |
| 26 | I thought of Troy , what we had built her for . |
| 27 | Asked what she thought of Slava Zaitsev , the man who has dressed rich Soviet women and diplomats ' wives since the Brezhnev era and the only Soviet fashion designer well known in the West , she curled up her nose . |
| 28 | Whatever Mr Pozsgay thought of the hardline backlash which began around 1973 , he kept it to himself . |
| 29 | I thought of the place as an imaginary island , a sort of French Never Never Land . |
| 30 | I never thought of that . |