Example sentences of "thought of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they said , for example , ‘ in the reign of the King Cheops ’ they thought of a distant event situated in time in a rather vague way . |
| 2 | I thought of a nice name |
| 3 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 4 | She thought of a tired analogy she had often heard , people in a crowded train compared to sardines in a tin . |
| 5 | Yes , and I think I thought of a personal note that , because we do get some good , good appointments . |
| 6 | The day before she left he thought of a new name for his house . |
| 7 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
| 8 | She thought of a beautiful phrase — to comfort his sad heart — and tears came into her eyes . |
| 9 | After coming across a hefty pile of best magazines prior to moving house earlier this year , I thought of a novel idea . |
| 10 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 11 | I thought of no such possibility . |
| 12 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 13 | Did you did you know what your father ever thought of the modern coffins ? |
| 14 | He thought of the forsaken wedding preparations , of the thoughts running through the head of the betrothed man , whose name he did not even know , of the decorations which were now mockeries . |
| 15 | As she stepped out into the dark night she thought of the gloomy squalor of Bacon Buildings and the smile left her face . |
| 16 | I thought of the fearful apprehension of the drug smuggler at the start of Midnight Express , his heart thumping , beads of guilty sweat on his lips . |
| 17 | He 's the sort of grandfather I would have liked to have , ’ Paige said shortly , then softened her tone as she thought of the kindly gentleman who had taken her under his wing . |
| 18 | He suddenly realised he had newer thought of the possible need to tell lies about why he was there . |
| 19 | She thought of the drowning kittens and wanted to laugh . |
| 20 | At times he would brood gloomily as he thought of the future course of the Reformation . |
| 21 | As part of its drive to improve the standard of service to taxpayers under the Citizen 's Charter , the Inland Revenue commissioned a survey in June to find out what taxpayers thought of the existing service and what they would like to see by way of improvement . |
| 22 | Afterwards , they lay silently together and as he thought of the recent conversation with Giancarlo he slowly ran his finger along her hip-bone and down towards her inner thigh . |
| 23 | Talking to strangers might be unwise , but she thought of the ghastly welcome awaiting the tired , unsuspecting traveller , and felt sorry for him . |
| 24 | Indeed , autonomy has been seen as a general virtue in philosophical thought of the Western world . |
| 25 | She thought of the dark corner in the kitchen garden where discarded violets grew , pallid , but obstinately scented as strongly as their pampered descendants , grown in glassed-over frames and raised on beds of leaf-mould . |
| 26 | She thought of Rory 's hand on her bare stomach , she thought of the two art students with their camera , she saw two brimming glasses of Beamish in the dockside bar , and the light came on . |
| 27 | I thought of the two members of my crew who were dead and remembered that if any of us had deserved to die it was 1 , who was responsible for the disaster . |
| 28 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 29 | This was a return to an area similar to that of my A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry ( 1969 ) , and in fact we thought of the two books as companion volumes , dealing respectively with poetry and prose . |
| 30 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |