Example sentences of "think [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would the average person , who never thinks about such things and is unfit and unsteady , have survived ? |
| 2 | He had not thought it possible that an innocent girl like Cora-Beth could think about such things , let alone voice them . |
| 3 | Nice people did n't think about such things , which was why child-abuse and wife-beating went frequently unremarked . |
| 4 | Men did n't think about such things . |
| 5 | Whatever one may think of such a position , it at least had the merit of being internally consistent . |
| 6 | You must never think of such a wicked thing again . |
| 7 | I am dumbfounded you should even think of such a thing with that lovely new cream gown hanging in your wardrobe and I should have been so happy to lend you my pearls . |
| 8 | How could she think of such a thing ? |
| 9 | No , she must n't think of such things again . |
| 10 | What would the angels think of such a name ? |
| 11 | However , a child , having the book read to them , would not think of such complex ideas , and after all the book was designed for a child . |
| 12 | But to resist ecstasy : who would have thought of such a thing ? |
| 13 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 14 | I had not thought of such a thing . |
| 15 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 16 | Musical ethnologists will no doubt pull their hair out at eh mere thought of such cross-cultural impurity , but the results sound pretty good to my untrained ears . |
| 17 | The best recommendation Gandalf can make is not to think about such things . |
| 18 | I ca n't even begin to think about such a question |
| 19 | Students reading philosophy should be able to think about such questions in a clearer and more disciplined manner than was possible to them before . |
| 20 | Some of the misunderstanding may result from very basic differences in the way doctors and patients think about such elementary things as ’ the body ’ , ‘ blood ’ , ‘ cleanliness ’ and ‘ feeling well ’ . |
| 21 | Some may indeed dream of a united Germany : few believe it is politic to speak or even think of such a thing . |
| 22 | First the fire of God 's anger burns so fiercely among them , that parts of the camp are destroyed ( again we must not try to rationalize these events : they are meant to be seen as miraculous , and whatever we think of such miracle , we must accept the terms in which the story is written ) . |
| 23 | But , then , we think of such objects as temporally extended . |
| 24 | And as for him going up Back Clough Dale and mithering the folk up there , and all for nothing — well , I reckon you 've lost your brains , my lad , to think of such a thing . |
| 25 | Indeed , we only have to think of such people as Einstein , Picasso , Michelangelo , Goethe and George Bernard Shaw to realise that the brain is definitely capable of functioning — and functioning to great effect — well into one 's eighties or nineties . |
| 26 | You have only to think of such ordeals as driving tests or interviews . |
| 27 | It would never have occurred to Nathan Holland , the young man on whose arm she leant , to think of such a thing ; he had worked with Paul Arkwright in the publishing house which turned out many of the latter 's books on philosophy , and soon Paul had asked him , knowing his astonishing gift for languages , if he would translate some of them . |
| 28 | Still , it is essential to the story that such thoughts be entertained , as indeed Gandalf also says to Pippin : ‘ If you will meddle in the affairs of Wizards , you must be prepared to think of such things ’ ( 11 , 199 ) . |
| 29 | It is too soon to think of such things . |
| 30 | How typical of Iris to think of such a detail at a time like this . |