The phrase "thought of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in a variety of contexts to indicate that someone was trying to think of something. For example: "I was sitting there trying to come up with an idea, but I couldn't seem to think of something."
"After Vietnam, he couldn't stand the thought of something suffering," his wife said.
"A lot of us will just get this thought of something that's impossible and making it possible.
The alternative could be much worse: the thought of something like IS controlling the world's largest oil reserves is terrifying.
"The thought of something dangling above you," he said, "things trundling over your head, I can't see".
She says: "Geriatric medicine is not neccessarily something that grabs people as a thought of something they might like to do.
It's a bit of a change because of the thought of something that people can do: one, what Robby has meant to my staffs in the past, and two, what Matt Galante has shown me from across the field".
Its start date is 1962 – it looks at what has happened to our wildlife since then – and, for me, that prompted anew thoughts of something I have written about here before, which is the environment and the baby-boomer generation, that cohort of individuals born in the aftermath of the Second World War – of which I am one.
Not that the Ireland coach was having anything to do with suggestions that with victory over last year's Grand Slammers in the bag, his own side might now entertain thoughts of something similar, with France also visiting Dublin.
You can feel it instantly when their mind drifts to thoughts of something other than what you are saying.
Negative thoughts of something bad happening were going through my head while my son was embracing the miracle of the wind's power.
As my eyes followed them to the parking lot, memories of my father trickled back into my mind and I was struck with thoughts of something he had told me when I was a youngster working beside him in his roadside fruit and vegetable stand.
