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Example sentences for "thought about"

  • I haven't thought about it for years," he said.

  • He thought about it for some time after she had left him, propped up on his pillows, his mind growing ever lighter.

  • I told him what I thought about her, and left him to infer the rest.

  • Humphrey stared at her, and Bobby Trench said, "Bravo, Miss Joan, you stick up for your own.

  • He hasn't spent money racing because he has never had any to spend.

  • He thought about it wearily, wishing he were better placed in this world; and finally screwed up his courage to leave this work, though it was not until something else was quite safely in his hands.

  • As a matter of fact, when he thought about it at all he was quite sure that she did not understand or appreciate the nature of her affection for him or his for her.

  • I guess you know--I guess everybody knows who's thought about it.

  • I told her what I thought about Hilary, and how he'd driven you out of your own mother's house.

  • Have you been interested in what I thought about you?

  • I thought about it a minute, rolling up the notes and putting them into my pocket.

  • Sometimes I laughed when I thought about it; sometimes I had a bit of a shiver down my back, the sort of thing which comes to a man who's engaged in a rum affair, and may not come well out of it.

  • Otherwise, this basket was no different from any dress-basket you may see upon half a dozen four-wheelers the first time you look in at a railway station; and I should be telling an untruth if I said that I thought about it at all.

  • Afterwards he thought about it as if their souls had been calling to one another across infinite space, things that neither of them could quite hear, and now they were within hailing distance.

  • They didn't have roast beef every day, and now that he thought about it he was hungry.

  • He instantly felt drawn into the grove, but he thought about it, and only now he became aware of how the servants and maids had looked at him at the entrance, how despicable, how distrustful, how rejecting.

  • Colonel Osborne, after all that had been said, had been admitted at the parsonage, and Trevelyan was determined to let the clergyman know what he thought about it.

  • I could not say all at once that I didn't care for him, when I had never so much as thought about it for a moment before.

  • Perhaps you haven't thought about my niece, Dolly Stanbury?

  • He was more grieved at himself than at the other fellow, because he had made up his mind to be civil to everybody, and above all things to put away the Barfield accent, which he could do quite easily when he thought about it.

  • I have at least an equal right to bring the same charge against you, but I should disdain to harbour such a thought about you.

  • It isn't to be done; it isn't to be thought about.

  • And the more he thought about it the more questions arose, and the more unsolvable they seemed.

  • And the longer he lived, the less he thought about it, until at last he forgot it completely.

  • To come into a house and give the people the dumps," he thought about himself; then, trying to be amiable, said that he would go with pleasure if the princess would admit him.

  • How could I set down all I thought about you, for instance, if the certainty was hanging over me that you would read my candid opinions and punish me for them!

  • The more I thought about it the less endurable it became to have her dependent upon the Grignons.

  • I have often wondered what he thought about when he went quietly around at your heels.

  • These words came upon Robert with such a shock of sympathy, that they destroyed his consciousness for the moment, and when he thought about them, he almost doubted if he had heard them.

  • He hardly knew how he came to be there, but when he thought about it he found it was play-Wednesday, and that he had been all the half-holiday trying one thing after another to interest himself withhal, but in vain.

  • He could even recall, as he thought about it, how drearily the afternoon had passed.

  • I've thought about it a great deal, and tried to take into account everything that she would be losing by marrying me--to see whether she ought not to lose any of it.

  • He thought about it as he sat at his table in the office, not very busy with the work that he had given himself to do.

  • Whatever I thought about it myself, it was for you to decide, and you weren't likely to have made a mistake, or to have gone into it lightly.

  • The more he thought about it, the more certain he became that he would choose to escape.

  • All this time I was haunted by the memory o' the gold which I'd washed out in Carson Valley; the more I thought about it, the more certain I was that untold riches lay buried there.

  • But, alas, the longer he thought about it, the more hopeless did the situation appear.

  • Yes, the more he thought about it the more convinced did he become that it was their doom to die.

  • But after I had agreed to jine them I began to think matters over a bit, and the more I thought about it the less I liked it; and at last I made up my mind that I'd slip my moorings aboard the Cloud the first chance as ever I got.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are bound; considered unlucky; full view; little after; other agencies; promoted over the trees; slight gesture; small star; start with; this movement; this vast; thought about; thought also; thought best; thought came; thought itself; thought little; thought maybe; thought more; thought proper; thought she; thought the; thought they; thought transference; thought very; thought worthy