After a thoughtful moment, he said, "I need to find something first."

She looked thoughtful a moment, then reached down for her drink again.

She looked at the lawyer for a long, thoughtful moment and then said, "That's right.

They stared at each other for a thoughtful moment.

And added after a thoughtful moment, "You'd surely be way ahead of me in line for that one, too."

When the last of them had gone he stood for a moment, silent and thoughtful, in the now deserted room.

It seemed a thoughtful moment like many others, in the course of a whole internal scientific dialogue.

"That doesn't make much sense, Sir," he said after a long, thoughtful moment.

She spoke with such soft intensity that he stared at her for a long, thoughtful moment.

"You may have a point," she said after a thoughtful moment.