Sentence examples for but thought instead from inspiring English sources

According to the summary, Mr. Ghailani said that he did not actually believe that Mr. bin Laden personally wanted him to become one of his 15 or 16 bodyguards, but thought instead that his fellow operative had used that line to get him to accept the job.

But think instead about life on a tough housing estate outside Malmo or Stockholm, and international marriages might involve Swedish citizens and Pakistanis, say, or Iranian refugees.

But instead of riposting, I thought instead of our relationship-­to-come.

Who thought instead of did.

But I think instead I'd stretch the definition of "picture book" a bit and take "The House at Pooh Corner".

But I think instead of addressing these problems, the men's rights movement is scapegoating feminism and scapegoating women as the cause of their problems.

If we focus only on imprisonment, which is still often the preferred mode of punishment in many penal systems, this suggestion will appear laughable; but if we think instead of punishments such as Community Service Orders (now part of what is called Community Payback) or probation, it might seem more plausible.

But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that's boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, that's going to make him blind.

But why should I give seven years of my life somewhere I didn't want to live?" Marbury said he thinks occasionally about what could have been had he stayed, but he prefers to think instead of the Nets' future.

I kept trying to create sounds like Ira Kaplan, my favourite guitar player, but Franic advised me to think instead about what Neil Young might do.

Let's think instead about August.