Example sentences of "[adv] to think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's selectors , however , have time enough to think on that . |
| 2 | Time enough to think of that when it happened . |
| 3 | Aggie gathered up the letters from the table , returned them to the writing case , then rose heavily , saying , ‘ Time enough to think about that . |
| 4 | You have only to think of such ordeals as driving tests or interviews . |
| 5 | We have only to think of numberless caged birds the world over who are better fed , more healthy , and longer lived than their fellows in the wild , yet apparently contented despite their inability to do little more than flap their wings . |
| 6 | It is too soon to think of such things . |
| 7 | She stood gazing up , trying desperately to think of some way of warning the pilot away from the deadly , treacherous swamp . |
| 8 | There was a long silence during which she tried desperately to think of some further topic of conversation — just to keep him here a little longer . |
| 9 | He tried now to think with savage pleasure of the dismay likely to afflict his mother , once her female companions heard of it . |
| 10 | We tend now to think of Classical bronze statuary , for example , as being covered with a fine green or deep brown patina , and moreover that this was their original state . |
| 11 | That would be a very great challenge for us to do , especially because we have never had the chance before to think about that , but er now I think that could be , er could become reality and I 'm quite sure that er there are teachers from that part of Germany who would like to , to work in your country ; maybe er English teachers er from East Germany teaching the German language here , that 's one thing I could imagine . |
| 12 | I 've never used it before to think of impossible things not things that are absolutely impossible … ’ |
| 13 | Why am I bothering even to think of such things ? |
| 14 | In my father 's day they would not have dared even to think like that ! |
| 15 | Normally , you will have an opportunity to look over the machine and to sit in the cockpit beforehand to think about all the knobs and levers . |
| 16 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 17 | Take some moments again to think about this . |
| 18 | ‘ Only uneducated women who 've got nothing else to think about like show-off white weddings , ’ Nigel said . |
| 19 | Since she hardly ever drank , she 'd probably have a hangover to contend with on top of everything else come morning , but frankly it would be a relief to have something else to think about other than Adam . |
| 20 | She was never to think of that dream without some of its investing emotions , shame and irritation , even after a man at a party in 1969 had told her such dreams are dreamed typically by those unlikely to fail plausible and real exams . |