Example sentences of "[pron] to think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Get more friction on that , clever of somebody to think of that , did n't they ? |
2 | Fredric Jameson , in his article ‘ Postmodernism and the video-text ’ , comments that experimental video may , provide a useful vantage point from which to think about commercial television : |
3 | Three hours in which to think of all that he had missed . |
4 | Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’ |
5 | However there are some that definitely require you to think of new ways to do things . |
6 | I ask you to think of that mother , waiting anxiously for her child to return . |
7 | I ask you to think of that half century as a movement , like the flow of a river . |
8 | What 's made you to think of that ? |
9 | These ideas may lead you to think of some even better ideas of your own . |
10 | But there 's no need for you to think about that sort of thing , ’ Mr Hellyer said . |
11 | I 'll want you to think about that tonight , I 'm gon na hand out a few sheets that might might explain a little bit of synergy erm I believe synergy this is my this is more of a sort of worldly view . |
12 | So I said I 'll leave you to think about that . |
13 | Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ . |
14 | That was good ; it gave her something to think about other than the pain lacerating her heart . |
15 | It was hateful to have to be like that , and usually she did not allow herself to think on those lines , but it was there and had to be recognized as a factor . |
16 | She clutched the doll to her heart , and told herself to think of poor dead Effie whose fate had been so much worse than her own , and that should teach her to count her blessings as her dear aunt Nella had always said . |
17 | It appalled him to think of living as Tina did , with one lover after another , apparently not even selectively , or as Jed , long separated from his wife and child , consoled by the society of a bird . |
18 | So I mean she 'd have to be a very speculative investor , she 'd have to be right up to er adventurous , for her to think about that . |
19 | She thought of the message Mrs Gotobed had asked her to take to her brother , and then , because it frightened her to think about this , said loudly and passionately , ‘ I wo n't spy for him , I wo n't , I wo n't . |
20 | How clever of her to think of this ! |
21 | Two recent examples from my own constituency — and which prompted me to think of this idea — illustrate the advantage of giving people this freedom . |
22 | To the left was only stygian darkness , too syrupy tor me to think of penetrating , the black from which ignorance is made . |
23 | The problem is that when a parent is feeling depressed or overwrought it is difficult for them to think of alternative strategies . |
24 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
25 | Because of his considerable talent as a storyteller , Chongo was able to entertain his audience and the same time to encourage it to think about moral problems , sometimes in a new and challenging way . |
26 | In fact , in some ways it 's a lot easier because I 've only got myself to think of these days . |
27 | She did n't know what to think of these solicitations . |
28 | ‘ The Commanding Officer wants us to think of this operation as a five furlong sprint . |