Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 2 | He felt he was going to climax early and desperately tried to think of other things to take his mind off it in order to last until she was ready . |
| 3 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 4 | So this was a new strange quantum number , and I think really what happened as new quantum numbers became necessary to describe the new types of particles , people just began to think of more sort of strange names like charm and beauty and erm things like this , but they have no real connection with what we normally understand by charm and beauty , they are just quantum numbers . |
| 5 | I just preferred to think of dead fish rather than Syl . |
| 6 | For most of the journey to Barnswick Ruth deliberately tried to think of nothing , to let her mind go blank . |
| 7 | Despite the material and social disadvantages that Harry had suffered as a child , he still seemed to think of those early years as happy ones . |
| 8 | Christopher 's serious childish voice , making that odd little pause between words , as if he still needed to think of them . |
| 9 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 10 | Involved in a relationship with her since his university days he missed her , and he too began to think of making the trip . |