I'll have a think about that and let you know.

Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.

I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.

Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

At the time I thought his adamant refusal to give in right.

I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means.

I think she is pretty, contrary to most people.

Boxing is thought to be a dangerous sport.

1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 182.
[…] one man showed me a young oak which he had transplanted from behind the town, thinking it an apple-tree.

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when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras

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