Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] thought [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 2 | The car slid away from the kerb , followed by a small blue roadster , and I thought with some regret that I was probably watching Mrs. Barbara Porter driving out of my life . |
| 3 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 4 | ‘ Once I cut the neckline wrong on three hundred dresses and I thought at first I 'd just keep quiet and fill the gap with lace . |
| 5 | And I thought at first that it was good , because my mistress had lost her interest in life and I thought this might renew it . ’ |
| 6 | Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do . |
| 7 | Harry and I thought at one stage that if we could find a proper home |
| 8 | Jack Heinz and I thought as one : that if the drawings could be housed in a Portman Square modernised for fire and climate control , and have the financial burden lifted from the shoulders of the RIBA , this would allow for spatial manoeuvre in Portland Place . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 10 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
| 11 | Now you may know all about personal allowances or you may think you know all about personal allowances and I thought like that . |
| 12 | The songs came back to her now , and she thought of all the things she had n't had : a junior prom , dates , valentines , flowers . |
| 13 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 14 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 15 | Meredith watched the long , well-manicured fingers gripping the glass until his joints showed white and she thought for one crazy moment that it was going to break into shards . |
| 16 | And he thought about that , and he kind of smiled and said , ‘ Yes , you 're right . ’ |
| 17 | He saw images : a ruined tower — and he thought of those black gaps behind the Eaton Square terrace ; death by drowning — and he thought of Hugo Glendinning ; a hanged man — and he thought of his father 's cadre ; two lovers — he thought of himself and Isobel ; a king of cups , a queen of diamonds — he thought of nothing . |
| 18 | We 've never had a big dog before , but we thought in these violent days it might protect us . ’ |
| 19 | Epicurus did , indeed , place supreme value on ‘ pleasure ’ ; but he thought of this as the calm tranquillity and freedom from anxiety which would be achieved by realizing that there is no life after death , and that we are not subject to outside divine influences . |