Example sentences of "thought [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dying 's a hard enough thought for old men , and terrible past bearing , maybe , for a boy . |
| 2 | Some young men never have really thought about personal hygiene very much and react very badly if the subject is mentioned . |
| 3 | I wonder if they have really thought about other people 's situations . |
| 4 | Occasionally you can say you think they 're being stupid or have they thought about other things but at the end of the day people are answerable erm for their own decisions I feel and , if I have an opportunity I 'll tell them what I think , but er if people are n't wanting your opinion then you ca n't really give it |
| 5 | Why speculate what Mother Anne might have thought about modern glues — they had none and she spoke to the brothers and sisters in their instant present . |
| 6 | Most of the people … had n't really thought about civil rights ; they had come , with a sort of friendly curiosity , to hear something . |
| 7 | Reacher confirmed he had thought about possible replacements for Clough , and he admitted the job would probably go to a Forest insider . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you thought about double glazing . |
| 9 | If Mrs Ebyth Morton ( Points of View , today ) was disappointed at the failure to show clips from the France-Scotland match in the BBC television news last Saturday , I wonder what she would have thought about Scottish Television 's choice on Sunday : ‘ 2:30 Scotsport . |
| 10 | Those who contemplated a new war thought about it in much the same way as a later generation thought about nuclear war : most of Peter Watkin 's film The War Game could have been made in the 1930s . |
| 11 | Non-logical stimuli : the first step here is to list as many aspects as can be thought of connected with the problem situation and to consider a completely irrelevant , unconnected object and to see how many ways that the object could affect the situation . |
| 12 | Have you thought of sorry , chair . |
| 13 | We have thought of videotaped interviews as a record of a therapeutic interaction . |
| 14 | We could all have thought of suitable answers to that one , but the rigid framework in which we lived dictated that we button up our lips , bite our tongues and suffer in silence . |
| 15 | I wonder if she has thought of alternative means of transport ? |
| 16 | Now , however , the French , no matter what they might have thought of American rhetoric , could at least pretend that they took it seriously and that their actions were being taken in defence of ‘ the free world ’ . |
| 17 | Some sick part of my mind suddenly thought of fried eggs lying thick with grease on a plate , surrounded with bacon , curled and scooped and holding little pools of fat , the outsides of the plate dotted with coagulated lumps Gf grease . |
| 18 | Have you thought of autologous bone marrow ? ’ |
| 19 | Four up for S-Sugar , she had thought with bitter satisfaction . |
| 20 | He was a whizz at this business , Charity thought with reluctant admiration . |
| 21 | Of course we have books on herbs and mediaeval remedies , and my middle daughter is a vegetarian who grows her organic vegetables in the form of the letters CND and recycles her night soil , but I had never consciously meditated , relaxed , watched my diet , had any particular way of eating , consulted an acupuncturist , nor thought in holistic terms . |
| 22 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 23 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 24 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 25 | It was thought in mediaeval times to have magic associations and was hung over doors on Midsummer 's Eve to ward off evil spirits . |
| 26 | Not all writers , however , thought in national terms ; the distinguished canon lawyer William Lyndwood was not prepared to identify patria with regnum , and instead thought of it as equivalent to regio , which for him meant the province of Canterbury ( 27 , p.172a ) . |
| 27 | It is a study of Liberal Catholic thought in English religion . |
| 28 | There had to be thought before structured talk . |
| 29 | Panamanian casualties , military and civilian , were thought to top 1,000 . |
| 30 | Mary 's quite good coming up with new ideas and new lines of thought on various subjects |