Example sentences of "[vb past] to think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said that she chose to write with other people when she wanted to write a story , because other people helped to think of more ideas , and it was more fun . |
| 2 | I tried to think of specific areas … like number of wins — home record — goals etc . |
| 3 | We agreed to these conditions , and tried to think of salacious things for Ted to tell Jean . |
| 4 | I tried to think of nice things ; then , when I could n't think of any , I determined to concentrate on what was happening around me . |
| 5 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He tried to think of other names , and remembered one ; Olivia . |
| 8 | With a little frown , she tried to think of another reason . |
| 9 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 10 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Brian tried to think about all those theories — so abstruse to him — which maintained that unloved children became unloving mothers , abused children turned into abusers of their own offspring . |
| 13 | I tried to think about this but did n't succeed . |
| 14 | Yet when she came to think about this further , she realised that she was nowhere near understanding Brian . |
| 15 | She seemed to think about that for a moment — how sad it had been — and then started to laugh . |
| 16 | Guido seemed to think about that for a moment . |
| 17 | Guido seemed to think about that for a moment . |
| 18 | Miss Kenton seemed to think about this before saying a little sulkily : |
| 19 | Ernie seemed to think about this . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nigel began to think of other ways to finance his ‘ research ’ , since a large advance was not forthcoming . |
| 22 | I began to think of other things . |
| 23 | But they became even more closely connected when Hobbes began to think of geometrical figures in terms of the motions which would generate or produce them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He began to think of this as a problem . |
| 26 | The short-term problems had by no means disappeared , but suddenly , with the end of the war , the mental horizons lifted , and politicians began to think with more urgency about the postwar future . |
| 27 | However , one evening in November that year , shortly after the birth of my daughter , Lucy , I started to think about black holes as I was getting into bed . |
| 28 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 29 | She struggled to think of some plausible reason , to raise her voice above the incessant beat of the music , which was so loud , despite the closed door . |
| 30 | I got to think about this on my own . |