Example sentences of "to think [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 2 | It is debatable how far young readers should be automatising the reading skill , or attempting to think about it as a conscious act . |
| 3 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 4 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 5 | I have not met the one in possession of my estate , and maybe never will , but I like to think of him as a kindly , white-haired old gentleman with a twinkle in his eye and a bag of humbugs for passing children , a man who has seen the troubles of the world but who remains untainted . |
| 6 | Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms , it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity . |
| 7 | Some people in publishing like to think of theirs as a glamorous medium , so they sometimes copy the Hollywood glitter , They certainly did so last week , when the Periodical Publishers Association handed out its awards for 1983 . |
| 8 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 9 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 10 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 11 | If you try to think of it as a closed totality you get into the problems of historicism ; if you try to think of it as entirely differentiated , then it becomes meaningless since there is no necessary connection , positive or negative , to anything else , nor would any one history produce any effect on another . |
| 12 | It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique . |
| 13 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 14 | But they said to think of it as a big pat on the back |
| 15 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 16 | Despite the MIDI nature of the JMP-1 , it 's useful still to think of it as a basic preamp . |
| 17 | He told her : ‘ It 's hard to think of you in an attractive way — you 're my friend 's wife . ’ |
| 18 | Mildly , he said , ‘ If you insist on facing things , why not think about how the way you 've behaved hardly leads me to think on you as a sensitive soul . |