How to use "thought" in a sentence

I arrived here earlier than I thought

This first night was not as bad as I thought

I've done quite well, but one thought still worries me: I haven't chipped much rock from the boulder

'I thought he'd driven straight to work.'

The urine tastes bad, but not quite as bad as I thought

The thought of seeing them again is keeping me alive

I fall back with a single thought screaming through my head.

It's my last thought before falling into a long, deep sleep.

I thought it was a shark, or even the monster!

I thought it was a rock, but then I realised it was metal

What all of us thought was a large whale was a three-hundred foot long underwater ship

"I thought they were the cannibals."

Ned Land still wanted to escape, and he thought about it every day

When I woke up, I thought that they put something in our food to make us sleep.

I wanted to know what the others thought of Captain Nemo

Ned Land's only thought was to escape

Captain Nemo understood that thought

So it was true, I thought

Captain Nemo never thought of danger

He thought nothing could stop him, his men or his ship.

I thought Captain Nemo would save his man

I thought he was going to kill the Captain.

I thought there was something more to this

Maybe Captain Nemo thought that soon all his men would die, and the Nautilus and his secret would be lost.

Ned Land lost his temper, and I thought Captain Nemo might listen to me and let us go.

Captain Nemo was not the man I thought he was

I listened to him playing the piano, and I thought I heard him say.

Suddenly, I thought I understood what the men below said in their strange language

'Why is she reading a book without pictures or conversations?' she thought

I know! I'll look for some Bowers.' Then she thought, 'No, it's too hot for that and I feel sleepy.'

She thought about her cat, Dinah

'Perhaps it will open one of the doors,' she thought

'This key has to open something,' she thought.

'Why can't I get smaller?' thought Alice

'That bottle was not on the table before,' thought Alice.

'I'll drink a little,' she thought

'Now I can go through that door,' she thought

'I want to go into that garden!' she thought

'Perhaps I'm one of them,' she thought

I know more than she does.' Then she thought, 'Do I know more? Let me see

'I'm smaller because I've got the hat in my hand!' she thought.

'Now I can go into the garden!' thought Alice, and she started to run to the little door

'I'm in the sea!' she thought

'Perhaps it's a big fish or sea animal,' she thought

'I'll speak to it,' thought Alice

Perhaps it's a French mouse,' Alice thought

'What is a Dodo?' thought Alice, but she smiled politely

'What am I going to do?' thought Alice

'This is very stupid,' thought Alice and she wanted to laugh

'Perhaps it's the Mouse,' she thought.

'He's looking for his hat,' thought Alice.

'This is very strange,' she thought

'I know something interesting will happen,' she thought

'Oh no!' she thought

'I can't do any more,' she thought

'Well, that's good,' she thought

'I'm never going to get out of here,' she thought

'Oh no, you won't,' thought Alice

Then she thought, 'I'll eat it and perhaps I'll get smaller again

'I eat mushrooms for dinner,' she thought

'It asked me that question before,' she thought

'This caterpillar isn't very friendly,' she thought

And she thought, 'Why does it get angry all the time?'

Alice looked at the two mushrooms and thought for a minute

'I can't go inside, I'm too big,' Alice thought

'I think that woman is the Duchess,' thought Alice

'That's not very polite,' thought Alice.

'I'll have to take this child away from here, or they'll kill it!' she thought

'What am I going to do with it?' Alice thought

'It wasn't a pretty baby, but it's quite a pretty pig,' thought Alice.

They all get angry in this place,' thought Alice

It thought for a minute or two

'That's strange, but not very strange,' thought Alice

'Perhaps it will come back again?' she thought

'I hope the March Hare isn't too strange,' she thought.

Alice thought for a little

Alice thought about that

'Perhaps they'll call me back,' she thought

'A door in a tree? That's strange!' she thought

'That's strange!' thought Alice

'Oh good!' she thought

'They're only cards,' she thought.

'The Queen isn't angry with me now,' she thought

It was a smile! 'It's the Cheshire Cat,' she thought

She thought, 'I won't speak to it before it has its ears - or perhaps one ear.'

Alice thought for a minute

'She's very friendly to me,' thought Alice

'I know a lot of the animals and birds here,' she thought

'I hope they finish the trial quickly,' she thought

The Mad Hatter thought for a minute

'I'm getting bigger again,' she thought.

Once I thought she was on the floor, and I put my hand on her shoulder to pull her up

I thought perhaps they were there to welcome us, but I was wrong

A pretty girl came up to our table, and the Colonel thought she was a waitress.

'Perhaps I can put things right with Jenny,' I thought, 'now that I've found her again.' But the more I thought about it, the more I finally understood that it was better for the boy to be with Jenny and her husband, and not to have an idiot for a father.

So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection

The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not nationally - narrowly nationalistic

'I thought you knew Mr Sampson already,' our host said.

The world is a very sad place!' Now I thought I understood Mr Slinkton

He thought for a moment

He thought for a moment and then he spoke to me.

You thought you could kill me for the two thousand pounds of the insurance policy, didn't you? You wanted to kill me with brandy, didn't you? But you wanted me to die quickly

'You thought I was drinking brandy all day - but I threw most of it away

When Dr Llewellyn examined the body, he thought the killer was right-handed

He thought it was somebody falling against the fence, but he did not look to see what it was

Schwartz thought the man was following him, but a few moments later when he looked back, there was nobody behind him.

He thought the woman had died between twenty to thirty minutes before

Why had the Ripper burnt them? When Abbeline discovered only one small piece of candle in the room, he thought that the killer had made a fire with the clothes because he needed more light to do his terrible work.

She thought he was looking up Miller's Court 'as if waiting for someone to come out'

'This is not the house of a rich man,' he thought

'I thought he was a priest.'

'My hair will grow again,' she thought, 'but teeth would be gone forever.' But then she thought about her daughter, and her own appearance suddenly seemed unimportant

Champmathieu, a large, simple-minded man, denied everything when his chance came to speak, but the crowd thought he was trying to be funny

'What kind of man is this?' they thought

'What would you say,' the old man said after a moment's thought, 'if I offered to take the child from you?'

'I'm going mad,' he thought, as he walked home.

How could I have thought such a thing? After speaking to him this evening, I can see that he doesn't look like the inspector at all.'

He thought that Pontmercy was no better than a beggar, a penniless adventurer who only wanted his money

Pontmercy thought that M

When girls looked at him and smiled, he thought they were laughing at his old clothes

What would he be thinking when he saw a strange young man walking backwards and forwards in front of his bench? Without another thought, Marius left the Gardens and went home.

'If they had had another neighbour,' he thought, 'one who had noticed their suffering, perhaps they could have been rescued by now.'

'Let's see what these people are really like,' Marius thought

Without another thought, Marius jumped on to the cupboard and looked again through the hole in the wall.

Then, when everything had been explained, Javert thought for a moment

'Thenardier,' he thought

Suddenly, she thought she heard the sound of footsteps in the garden

Cosette, not a nervous girl by nature, smiled to herself and thought no more about it.

Although this made him very unpopular, he thought that his opponents would be too weak to prevent him from doing what he wanted

The tall, grey-haired man was doing useful work on the larger barricade, and Eponine (whom everyone thought was a boy) worked hard too

He had only one thought in his mind: he wanted to die.

Just as Marius thought that her sad soul had finally left her body, she slowly opened her eyes, and said in a voice so sweet that it seemed already to come from another world, 'You know, M

So she still loved him! He thought for a moment that now he must not die, but then he thought, 'She's going away.'

The boy scratched his head, thought for a moment, and then, with a sudden movement, took the letter and ran off into the night.

There was no reason, he thought, why they should not continue to live happily together in England

He began to feel happier as he thought about the journey they would soon be making

Marius went pale at the thought of having to choose which man had to die

'They've taken me prisoner,' he thought, moments before losing consciousness

He thought he was dreaming

He thought about Enjolras and Eponine, and wondered why Cosette's father had been at the barricade

Most of all, however, he thought about Cosette, and how he could find her again.

I knew you were angry with me, and I thought, "What can I do to make him love me?" Then I thought, "I can give him Cosette." I wanted to invite her to see you, but the doctor warned me that you would probably get too excited

He did it without any thought of a reward

It was the happiest night of Cosette's life, spoilt only by one thing: the fact that her guardian - whom she still thought of as her father - went home before the feast had started, saying that he felt ill

Marius thought it was right to exclude Valjean from Cosette's life

She could not understand why her father, as she still thought of Valjean, had stopped visiting her

The smell of tobacco and the handwriting on the envelope was so familiar that Marius immediately thought of the Jondrettes

'Because I thought it would be better to break away

Yes, I know her! And the thought is so strong that I smile despite the pain in the back of my head.

I told them I had a pain in my side, and the doctors thought it was my appendix

a man, probably alone, and thought to be extremely dangerous..

a man, probably alone, and thought to be extremely dangerous..

The sound of the sirens was still in the distance, and Brandon thought that maybe they were still okay and that maybe they could leave; maybe they could escape together

And he got to the truck and managed to drive to the road, where for a few minutes he thought he was free

And for a while he thought that he would die in the deep dark corner behind the wall

And Owen knew the boy was interested then, and for the first time in a long time he thought that maybe there was something they could do together

And Jimmy thought he could take it all.

And he thought he could do it quickly

It is a comforting but also rather depressing thought.

For one awful moment, she thought Gran might even fall over.

"Maybe someone found it in a dusty corner and thought of my little garden..

"I know." Sala thought of Cham's face when he left her, and felt uneasy

Then she thought about Gran's fruit.

I just thought you might be annoyed with me, and I didn't want to ruin our day."

Suddenly, Sala thought she understood

So I thought, hey, yes - that's a great idea, I don't have to actually do it-"

"You've read the messages, you've thought about it, you've even talked to your mom -"

Sala thought for a while

Gran stared into the distance for a moment, deep in thought

Sala thought of all the places she'd visited in the simulator

Too bad, she thought.

Then she thought of Gran.

"Gran said she thought it had come from..

But she hated the thought of losing him.

When I told Mom about it, she looked so hopeful I thought she'd cry

Until now, Sala hadn't even thought about doing it herself

But then she thought of her Gran, and what she'd said about Cham's situation

But whenever she thought about lying in a pod for months, her stomach seemed to turn over and over - in spite of what she'd told Cham.

Maybe this was how it felt to go on a real journey, she thought

I'm connected to an ancient time and place, thought Sala

I thought it was cool

"I thought so." He played with her fingers, matching them against his

I know you've thought about it, and I can see you've decided the answer is no

"But I thought you loved your pod experience."

Back at home that afternoon, Sala thought about Niki's words: it was true that because she was with Cham, life felt exciting

Feeling warm and comfortable and sleepy, she thought of Cham, holding her in the Real Space

Maybe it's part of the story, she thought sleepily - but then a light started flashing, and she opened her eyes.

"But I thought you said he was helping fix this problem at the meat laboratory," said Sala.

When they had all cried and hugged each other, it was the first thing that Sala thought of.

Maybe this man is hoping I'll change my mind, Sala thought.

It's like a prison, Sala thought.

For all of us, Sala thought

Sala, you're such a fool, she thought

Instead, she thought of Oban and Wena, and Gran's dreams about a life outside

Then she thought about Cham's warning, and felt confused

Of course, they would have seen that Cham had changed! And they'd permit him to leave the pod at once if they thought it was damaging him.

I'm going to have to be blunt, thought Sala

Completely hopeless, Sala thought as she sat finishing her green tea

She didn't care what he thought

Normally she loved it when Cham was fooling around with his sisters, but now she thought she'd explode.

During the Oil Wars, they had to train us how to keep our minds strong, in case we were caught by people who wanted to change the way we thought."

They'll make us tell them everything we know." It was a horrible thought

She thought about all the wonderful times they'd had together

She thought of everything that she, Mom, and Gran had talked about over and over

You know - against people who wanted to change the way you thought."

For one last time, she thought of them

She thought of Gran's final advice

I thought for a moment that he was going to tell me about Manderley

I thought of the long hours to bedtime

I shall never drive with him again, I thought

Someone has told her, I thought

I thought of the writing on that page

I thought of all the letters Rebecca had written to her husband

I thought I could hear her voice calling him

The thought of leaving Monte Carlo and Maxim de Winter was a terrible one

I thought you didn't like Monte Carlo.'

I thought I would not see you again.'

'I'm sorry, I thought you loved me.'

I thought I would never see you again.'

'Well,' she said, 'you are more clever than I thought

'I thought so,' Maxim said

This is what he always did, I thought

I had thought we would spend our first morning at Manderley together.

I had thought that perhaps we would walk down to the sea, or sit under the great tree on the lawn.

I thought I would light the fire in the library

I thought of Rebecca sitting at that desk

Then I thought of Mrs Van Hopper, far away in New York

It was closer than I thought, much closer

'My dear child,' Beatrice answered slowly, 'I thought Maxim had told you

This is what I wanted, I thought

This is how I thought life at Manderley would be.

I was not sure what Beatrice had said and I thought it better not to ask.

I thought Maxim was being very unkind

'I thought you would come with me,' I answered.

Sometimes I thought about the cottage down in the bay

I thought about Manderley, full of people in beautiful costumes, dancing in the hall

I thought of Rebecca, lively and beautiful, arranging everything

'I'm so sorry,' I said, 'I never thought Robert would get into trouble.'

'I never thought that Mrs de Winter had broken the ornament,' said Mrs Danvers

Oh well, it doesn't matter, I thought

Maxim still thought of me as a child - someone who must not hear unpleasant things

'I haven't thought about it,' he said

Perhaps he thought I was too shy to want the Ball.

'I thought you had thrown it away by mistake.'

I wished I had thought of the idea myself.

I thought about going for a walk

As you stood on the stairs, I thought for one terrible moment...'

'They're beginning to go,' I thought

For a moment, I thought that it was Maxim

Why shouldn't I cry? What's it to do with you? You came here and thought you could take Mrs de Winter's place

'You thought I loved Rebecca?' he said

'Everyone thought she was the kindest, the most charming person

'I thought about Manderley too much,' he said

I thought Favell was with her

Very soon Maxim will be back, I thought

I must try and get out of the door, I thought

Oh God, I thought, don't let Maxim lose his temper.

What were they all saying now? What was happening? What would I do if Frank came back to Manderley without Maxim? I thought again of that dreadful word - murder

I thought about the church where Rebecca was being buried at last.

She thought men were fools

That was the thought of illness, of dying slowly in her bed.'

I knew Maxim thought so too.

She thought of herself as a tough, competent, levelheaded woman who was able to deal with anything life threw at her, and she was disturbed by her continuing inability to accept Danny's death.

A month ago, for the first time, she'd thought that at last she had begun to overcome her grief

That's what she had thought a month ago

She was proud, unable to bear the thought of appearing to be hysterical to a couple of macho cops who would grin at her and, later over doughnuts and coffee, make jokes about her

And that was another reason she didn't attempt to explain her and Michael's problems to Danny - she thought that their estrangement was only temporary

She'd thought he had regained his perspective during the last few months, but evidently not.

She stared at the chalkboard, thought of the two words that had been printed there, and anger swelled in her

"Oh," Tina said, "I thought Harry Simpson-"

She thought: My God, I've been letting myself dry up! How could I have forgotten this!

Her first thought was: Burglar alarm.

At first Vivienne thought that, she was imagining the change in temperature, but the closer she drew to the end of the corridor, the colder it got

"I thought a director-"

When she thought of clubbing him, he looked at her, and she saw his face: a fleshless skull with rotting skin stretched over the bones, burning red eyes, a yellow-toothed grin

And if Michael had slipped into the house like a little boy playing a cruel prank, if he had written that message on the chalkboard, then his hatred of her was far greater than she had thought

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

She'd thought the sight of her would wipe the smile off his face

If he was faking innocence, he was a much better actor than she thought he was, and she thought she knew him well indeed

Fling! She thought angrily.

And now he actually thought that she was going to crawl back to him

I came to you because I thought..

She smiled when she thought of him, then picked up the sheaf of papers that Angela had given her, anxious to finish her work.

She thought of the man in her nightmare, the man in black whose face had been lumpy with maggots, and the shadows in the corner of her office seemed darker and deeper than they had been a moment ago.

This was a new thought: the possibility that his ultimate goal was to do something worse than torment and scare her.

She had just spoken to the computer as if she actually thought she was talking to Danny

"I believed them, thought it was safe."

"Is it? I thought I'd begun to get over Danny's death back in September

I thought I'd put the worst pain behind me

"I mean, I thought it must have been a divorce or something."

He realized they had even more in common than he had thought

"What a lovely thought."

I thought it was just a simple thing."

Tina thought of the graphic novel with the man in black on its cover

He thought of her slightly crooked smile, her eyes as quick and deep and cool and blue as a pure mountain stream

She thought of the words on the chalkboard and on the computer printout: Not dead, not dead, not dead...

This last thought profoundly shocked her

At least she'd always thought she didn't believe in it

Smiling, Tom said, "I think the deposit might not turn out to be as refundable as you thought."

And even if he was deeper under than I thought, some of his people probably went in there and pulled him out while I was rushing off to you

That was a bizarre thought, not at all the sort of notion he'd ordinarily get in his head, and he didn't like it.

Even after all this time, when she thought about Danny's last moments on earth - the terror he must have known, the excruciating pain he must have endured, even if it was of brief duration - she began to choke with sorrow and pity

"I thought we might make some quick allies out of those other parents

"I thought you said we had enough to interest a good newsman

While she thought about what Elliot had said, she dipped one finger in the water and drew a grim mouth, a nose, and a pair of eyes in the circle; she added two horns, transforming the blot of moisture into a little demonic face

And they thought about those things that neither of them wanted to speak of: murder past and murder present.

"On second thought..

"I thought that was exactly what you wanted to know."

At the same time, she knew this wasn't a rational thought; the explanation, whatever it might be, was not that simple

"Listen," she said excitedly, "we thought someone was sending me messages about Danny being alive just to rub my face in the fact that he was actually dead - or to let me know, in a roundabout fashion, that the way he died wasn't anything like what I'd been told

"That's what I thought at first

He had thought Evans might be keeping a vigil at the demolished house, while the firemen sifted through the still-smoldering debris, searching for the remains of the woman they thought might be buried there

The longer he thought about it, the less Kennebeck was able to believe that the Evans woman knew the truth about her son

At least I'm honest about my motives, Kennebeck thought as he watched Alexander cross the study

"If he thought he could get any help from the cops, he'd have been there already," Kennebeck said

He's always so damned self-confident, Harry Kennebeck thought

What an uncharacteristic display of reserve, Kennebeck thought sourly.

He wished they'd thought of gloves; his hands were freezing.

He's more important because he's a human being, not because he's a source of data, Dombey thought angrily, but he didn't voice the thought because it would have identified him as a dissident and as a potential security risk.

"I would have thought..

At least half of the people who worked for it did not even realize it existed; some thought they were employed by the FBI; others were sure they worked for the CIA; and still others believed that they were in the hire of various branches of the Treasury Department, including the Secret Service

At least that was the way George saw it; he thought of himself as heroic

When the plane settled down once more, Alexander looked out the window at the milky-white, moonlit, feminine roundness of the clouds below, and he thought of the Evans woman

He decided he would kill her himself when the time came, and that thought gave him an instant erection.

He closed his eyes and thought about Christina Evans.

If they thought you knew about them-"

After a minute of thought Tina said, "I don't know

This was an unsettling thought

"I thought there'd be a large staff."

"I thought the U.S

He touched the gun that he carried in a shoulder holster, and he thought of Christina Evans.

Tina met Elliot's eyes, and she knew that the same thought was running through both their minds

She thought about the future

At first, I thought the writers had put lampposts on this road, which would make no sense, as it is a secret route through restricted government property

I thought it was murder, and I could not forget the five orange pips and the strange letters to my uncle and my father.

Helene was so calm during the investigation that the doctors finally decided she was mad (something I had for a long time thought the only possible solution), so there was no trial

She never tried to defend herself and even got quite annoyed when she realized people thought she was mad

'I have thought about that, Monsieur Delambre

I thought of all the hundreds of questions that Charas had asked Helene

I had thought about going to see the commissaire, but knowing that he would then start questioning Henri made me hesitate

Of course I never thought that he would try an experiment with a human being, not then anyway

It was clear they thought I was crazy

I have thought of a way which is neither simple nor easy, but you can and will help me.

I have already thought of that

The other men all thought I was wonderful

I thought about Dr Stone, who was a well-known archaeologist

'Oh! Do you think I haven't thought about that again and again? I'm not a bad woman

'I've thought about what you said at lunch,' she told me, 'and I've found some good things to eat.'

'Haven't you thought,' I asked, 'that Lettice might think that, too?'

We thought that Inspector Slack would come and ask me what it was I had wanted to tell him, so we were surprised when Mary told us that he had gone

Half an hour, he thought

'Well, I thought she might,' said Miss Marple

'I think Lettice thought so, too

I thought the Chief Constable was going to explode with anger.

He thought that it gave him a perfect alibi.'

'How could I have thought for one minute that Anne did it? I met her in the studio that afternoon...' He paused.

I picked it up - and recognized it as my pistol! And I just thought Anne must have taken it, meaning to shoot herself because she was so unhappy

I thought that after we parted in the village, she must have come back here and - so I put the pistol in my pocket and left

And I thought that if Anne had done this awful thing, I was responsible, so I went and confessed.'

Lawrence Redding thought

'But I thought that perhaps my husband wouldn't stay very long

Mrs Price Ridley thought about it

I thought I was going to faint

But I thought it was Mrs Abbott speaking.'

'But I suddenly thought that I'd like to see Miss Marple first.'

'Although nobody has ever thought that he did shoot Protheroe.'

I thought for a moment

She had gone to the vicarage at about a quarter past six and thought that the study was empty

And because of the clock, it was thought that the time of death was 6.22.

Because he had read a few books, he thought he knew more than a man who has studied the subject all his life and...'

And I thought, "Men are all alike

I thought of Miss Marple's churchwarden with his second secret family

In fact, I felt rather happy at the thought of no more burnt vegetables and tough meat.

'I am sleeping very badly just now, and at about three o'clock this morning I thought I heard someone moving about the house

I thought that the sounds came from up above but when I called up these stairs, "Is anybody there?" there was no answer, so I went back to bed

'I thought', I said, 'that you would.'

I had thought that Lawrence had broken them

'Sir, if you thought you knew where this suitcase was hidden, why did you not tell the police?'

'Because I was in the woods when I suddenly thought about it.'

I just thought something had happened and that was why Mrs Protheroe had asked to see you.'

I thought that, of course, the news they had heard must be the same thing

'When I called on Mrs Lestrange on the afternoon of the murder I thought she was out

And I suddenly thought that perhaps it did not work.'

'I thought it might be important, Mr Clement.'

'I thought you didn't like him.'

Nobody ever liked him because he always thought he was right, and that others were always wrong

Then I thought of something, and I took from my pocket the shiny brown stone I had found in the woods

'I never thought of that,' I said.

Mrs Protheroe went to the window and thought the study was empty

'So it's the one man we never even thought about!' He went over to the sleeping man and shook him, at first gently, then harder

You thought you were speaking to Dr Haydock

I explained about the telephone call and how I had thought I recognized Hawes' voice

I really think that for a moment we thought she had gone mad

And he thought that it might be useful, so he put it in his pocket.

And they thought that this would make her stop

'That is why I thought perhaps-'

'Oh, it was just a thought

His first thought, I imagine, must have been to run away

He said I thought she was dead!

Sometimes, I believe, he really thought she had done it!' She paused

She had at last told the police that she had taken the suitcase to the woods, but had thought she was protecting Dr Stone's archaeological discoveries from his enemies.

No one gave a thought to possible threats from other planets.

Many people in that part of England saw it, and simply thought that another meteorite had fallen

He could hear movement from inside but thought this was due to it cooling down

The thought of the creature trapped inside was so terrible to him that he forgot the heat, and went forwards to the cylinder to help

I climbed into the pit and thought I heard a faint movement under my feet

Then he disappeared, and I thought I heard a faint scream

I thought about speaking to him, but did not

But I did not consider these points at the time, and so I thought the Martians had very little chance of success

I thought, puzzled

At first I thought it was the wet roof of a house, but the lightning flashes showed that it was moving quickly down Maybury Hill

I turned, but I was not too frightened for thought.

I had a sudden thought and looked to the north, and there I saw a third of these cloudy black hills.

My brother, who had seen the situation at the stations in London, thought that was hopeless

I thought of her in Leatherhead, frightened, in danger, thinking of me already as a dead man

We were very different people with different habits of thought and action, and those differences increased because we were living together in this dangerous place

The death of the man outside had taken away all his powers of thought

I thought at once that it would know that I was there from the mark of the hammer.

I thought that it might not be long enough to reach me

On the thirteenth day I drank some more water, and thought of impossible plans of escape

I thought that if I could attract it in quietly, I would be able, perhaps, to kill and eat it

I had no regrets about this, but in the stillness of the night, with a sense that God was near, I thought again of every part of our conversation from the time we had first met

I thought, watching him.

Strange as it may seem, I had not thought of things this way, although it was perfectly obvious

I've thought about it

I sat and thought about these things

As we worked I thought about the job, and soon some doubts began to come into my mind

I thought about the distance to the drain and the chances of missing it completely

I wanted to continue, but a thought came to me.

Why was I walking alone in this city of the dead? I thought of old friends that I had forgotten for years

I thought of the poisons in the chemists' shops, the bottles in the wine shops...

At first I thought a house had fallen across the road, but when I climbed up on the ruins I saw, with a shock, this great machine lying, with its tentacles bent and twisted, among the ruins that it had made

The thought that had flashed into my mind grew real, and believable

At the thought, I lifted my hands towards the sky and began thanking God

In a year, I thought, we would rebuild all that had been destroyed.

Then came the thought of myself, of my wife, and the old life of hope and tender helpfulness that had ended forever.

Had I spoken my thought aloud? I turned, and the door to the garden was open behind me

And it is strangest of all to hold my wife's hand again, and to think that I have thought of her, and that she has thought of me, among the dead.

It may have nothing to do with what happened afterwards, but I thought that I should mention it.

'I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am better than you thought.'

A doctor really must have practice! This time, I thought, he will get more practice with me than with a thousand normal patients

They thought I was lazy

Each one thought it was a different place

The lock-keeper I ran out, because he thought someone had fallen into the water

I thought the job must be very difficult.

We saw the cover moving violently, but we thought this was the correct method.

George and I thought that this was an important part of his cooking method.

We thought they were some sort of Red Indian food, and, to cook them correctly, it was necessary to do special dances with magic words.

I thought about King John, who signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, in II5

We thought about the happy days of childhood when there was lots of mustard on the table

I thought I knew you

At first, he thought that it was the end of the world.

He said, 'What swans?' He thought that George and I were dreaming.

He probably thought he was in heaven.

As Mercy puts the cover on her typewriter, the thought of the bus ride home goes through her like a pain

And she said only last week that she didn't have a penny on her, thought Connie

'Ruin, ruin, ruin! Christ! See, Connie, the funny thing is that I am sure you are the only person who thought it was a disaster to have a sister who was the girlfriend of a big man.'

I thought I'd come and ask you if it's all right.'

After that, I thought about Walter often, especially on the nights when Percival left me alone and went to parties with the people from the opera house.'

I thought to myself, I must hear their conversation.

He knew that none of the village women spoke to me because 6 they thought I had lost my virtue

During that time, I thought often of Anne Catherick

I thought of those famous words from the Bible: 'The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children.' The fatal similarity between two daughters of one father had caused all this suffering.

I thought also about Laura's meeting with Anne Catherick by the lake

After a few minutes of intense thought, he sat down again and said, 'What I'm going to tell you now is a secret, and I could be killed for telling it to you

People thought that a woman's only job was being a wife and mother

But people thought that this work was not important, and women had to leave their jobs when they married.

He and Marie had to be thought about together "for our research on radioactive bodies", he wrote

Nancy was very strong, and she always said what she thought

They thought it was a big mistake.

William thought that women should also be able to go into space

But in 1948 she was thirty years old, and many people thought that she was too old to be the best