Example sentences of "think [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the Oxford guest said , ‘ You 'd think with all this unemployment … there seem to be an extraordinary number of people around who do n't want to work . ’ |
| 32 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 33 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 34 | As I watched them , I thought about all the crazy things the people I 've grown up with believe and do . |
| 35 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 36 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 37 | As he threw it into the sea , watching the water swallow up his past month 's work , he thought of all the walking he was soon to do . |
| 38 | When her father was being stern with her , and she hid her face from the camera in the pillow on the morning before her wedding , he thought of all the arguments that he would have used to persuade her to get up and face the situation . |
| 39 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
| 40 | I thought of all the multitudes who had lain upon its hard , steel bed staring upwards , their fears and hopes filling the room , waiting only for its pronouncements when can easily turn into a foe . |
| 41 | Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed . |
| 42 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 43 | I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool . |
| 44 | I remembered the honesty of Masquerade in a force five wind , and then I thought of all the good days to come ; days of Ellen and me and Masquerade in far seas , and I must have smiled , for Robin-Anne nodded approval of whatever silent answer I was framing to her question . |
| 45 | For a moment he wondered about her , what she thought of all the ribbing and chipping that she received almost every day in this place . |
| 46 | The songs came back to her now , and she thought of all the things she had n't had : a junior prom , dates , valentines , flowers . |
| 47 | He thought of all those white-faced passengers , panic-stricken as they peered out of their windows when they heard the engines spooling up again , wheels rumbling as they were noisily retracted , finally followed by the sharp upward tilt as the plane climbed out from the airport at full power . |
| 48 | She thought of all the wicked things he had done and her anger grew and grew like a dark flower opening inside her . |
| 49 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 50 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 51 | She thought of all the rats scurrying through the streets , hustling for a crust . |
| 52 | She thought of all the changes the news would make in her life as she walked to Egremont Street and wondered how soon her brothers and friends and dancing partners would be called up . |
| 53 | Beyond that , tell us what you thought of all the obvious aspects ; lift queues , skischool , mountain restaurants and so on . |
| 54 | She thought of all their eyes glittering in the candleshine . |
| 55 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 56 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 57 | I thought of all the people called Gray that I knew , not many really for such a common name . |
| 58 | I thought of all the possibilities , and it seemed to me it was there all the time , but I had n't seen it . |
| 59 | She thought of all the wretched women in the East End , and aye , in the West End too , not excluding her own maltreated self , and thought that at whatever cost she would carry out the task she had set herself — to find out how the under-privileged lived , and to strike a blow for suffering womanhood while she did so . |
| 60 | But Neil 's world lay in ruins about him , as he thought of all the lies which McAllister had told him , and listening to Havvie began to wonder where the truth lay . |