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Example sentences for "often thought"

  • He often thought: 'If only she had something to take her out of herself!

  • I've often thought it queer I've never seen you since.

  • I never could recollect it, though I've often thought of her sweet little face.

  • I often thought of my father, who had been absent now for nearly four years, and, as the time advanced, I became more anxious to hear of him.

  • This can be done more readily than is often thought to be possible.

  • Over-indulgence in alcohol, though this is often thought to predispose to the disappearance of the parenchyma of organs and to the overgrowth of connective tissue, does not seem to have any place in the etiology of this affection.

  • Appetite is largely a function, as the mathematicians say of something that depends on something else, not of exercise, as is often thought, but of fresh air.

  • I've often thought so," he went on, his eyes now on watch for the bad seas and again looking wistful-like at me.

  • And after a little: "And I've often thought it a pity for a man to go and nothing come of his going.

  • I've often thought he had some fine inner sense that taught him even as a child that if it's hard to speak truth, its next to impossible to hear it.

  • I often thought that if my father had come out to this country, he'd have grown to be like Iron Skull.

  • Why, Jane, I've often thought if anything happened to you, I'd kill myself.

  • I've often thought since as I shut that door a deal too soon; but I was too young to know all as that poor thing must have suffered.

  • I often thought o' that when I was wi' him in Edinburgh; for he introduced me to a' his grand freends.

  • We often thought of Steenie and prayed for him; but we knew not where he was, as the cold had driven him from all his old haunts.

  • This is what he often thought about, and for this reason he had hesitated to propose the subject to Robert.

  • I've often thought of you since that day when you wouldn't take the whistle," he declared.

  • I've often thought of it," he replied, still seeking his words with difficulty.

  • All this I recollect as if it occurred but yesterday, I shall recollect it to the last day of my life, for it was a honey-moon of novelty, years afterwards I often thought of it when fucking other women.

  • The way in which the old bawd got to see her legs was amusing, I often thought of it; not knowing a bawd's dodges then.

  • This is often thought to mean that the earth's rotation was stopped, so that the sun and moon apparently stood still.

  • Now the Old Testament always takes for granted the existence and influence of angels, yet at the present day this is often thought to be a difficulty.

  • Now, any special action on God's part is often thought to present great difficulties, as interfering with the uniformity of nature.

  • The second difficulty is, that the Incarnation would lead to a compound Being, who is both Divine and human at the same time, and this is often thought to be incredible.

  • He loved you dearly, and I've often thought it was that love and ambition for you that made him determine to make money, so that you might have the future he planned for you.

  • Yes, son, I've often thought I would be happier there, but father has never thought so.

  • I've often thought I'd kill him if he had.

  • He often thought of John Westlock, and besides looking out for him on all occasions, actually walked about London for three days together for the express purpose of meeting with him.

  • As he strove to free the hand in which he held a club, and strike the blow he had so often thought of, he started to the knowledge of his waking purpose and the rising of the sun.

  • Even this is not quite so sure as is often thought.

  • The Renaissance is often thought of as a movement which originated about the middle of the Fifteenth Century.

  • Progress is much more elusive than is ordinarily thought, and is never the simple, unmistakable movement of advance it is often thought.

  • I've often thought of it, and thanked you, when you didn't know nothin' about it.

  • I've often thought what a pity it is you haven't got a lot of young Flicks of your own.

  • I've often thought, What use am I, rough and strong as I am, in the world?

  • Such a place as I've often thought of casting anchor in for life.

  • But I've often thought what a pity it is that we can't describe things or places at all with words.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    civil strife; considering that; eighths inch; fish catch; flat surface; immense crowd; irredeemable paper; local government; maritime boundary; nor can; often cultivated; often difficult; often employed; often impossible; often mentioned; often more; often omitted; often quoted; often repeated; often seemed; often seen; often think; often very; often went; philosophical work; shall make