Example sentences of "think of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must n't think of its Petersburg crowds as the folk ( narod ) ; they are a medley of exploiters and exploited , above all of arrivers and non-belongers . |
| 2 | Otis Ferguson was aware that the film depicted a ‘ phony strike ’ and that there was no real analysis of labour-management problems but he still felt that it had ‘ this air of life whatever we may think of its social content ’ . |
| 3 | Whatever one may think of its application to the particular case , there can be little doubt that Banfield has at the very least described in an ideal form a society in which thrift , enterprise , trust and cooperation are impossible , and therefore one in which political and economic development along liberal democratic and capitalist lines are grossly inhibited . |
| 4 | but I could not think of its name . |
| 5 | He could not think of their fate . |
| 6 | Yet even in cuisine , from which the metaphor of ‘ taste ’ comes , people who take food seriously do not think of their preferences as relativistic in this sense . |
| 7 | A student of mine who saw the Hollywood film Witness , which featured the Amish community , wondered whether we should think of their way of life not as a residue of the past but the way of the future ! |
| 8 | Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society . |
| 9 | For managers to be able to resolve ethical dilemmas , says Ms Nash , they should think of their business in terms of covenants — with employees , customers , suppliers and so on . |
| 10 | The distinction between the two concepts , the commission of a crime and the production of a literary work , is a vital one , for although it is clearly desirable to deter crimes , it is not transparently obvious that we should seek to deter the production of literary works , whatever we may think of their intrinsic merits . |
| 11 | Can anybody else think of their birthday in French ? |
| 12 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 13 | I will think of her welfare . |
| 14 | And then there was her sister Laura , but she 'd think of her later . |
| 15 | This was the final straw for Mrs B who broke down completely at the thought that her daughter could still think of her mother when this horrible thing was happening to her . |
| 16 | Despite her ordeal the woman could only think of her boyfriend , but by the time police arrived to free him , he had wriggled free and managed to open the boot from the inside . |
| 17 | I 'll think of her name in a minute . ’ |
| 18 | She would not think of her dry mouth or her empty stomach , or the clammy chill of the dungeon that had seeped into every bone in her body . |
| 19 | Why was she worrying so much about what the fuddy-duddy Dr Grant might think of her appearance anyway , when what mattered surely were her professional capabilities , and certainly she had no doubts about those . |
| 20 | There is not a day goes by that Joan does not think of her youngest child . |
| 21 | No matter what Louise might think of her tactics in dealing with this crisis she believed she had handled the situation in the best way possible . |
| 22 | You know her , I ca n't think of her name . |
| 23 | kept the children in bed , told them not to move and the boy , the gi erm , what 's her name , I ca n't think of her name now , she erm , she woke her , her husband chased them both downstairs , tell you where they live , you know Lawrence Hill ? |
| 24 | Nope I ca n't think of her name . |
| 25 | Oh , I ca n't think of her name now cos I got a mental block . |
| 26 | What do you think of her hair ? |
| 27 | ‘ What do you think of my painting ? ’ she asked . |
| 28 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 29 | What d' you think of my wine ? ’ |
| 30 | What d' you think of my plot , Charles ? ’ |