Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] think [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting his arm around his wife 's shoulder , he added : ‘ When I came down the drive to see you I could n't think of a good reason to give you for splitting up . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to have a full career here and I could n't think of a better way to do that . |
| 3 | ( All right , I could n't think of a footballing Z. ) |
| 4 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 5 | I could n't think of a better place to end this leg of the tour than Belfast . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't think of a good reason why not so I ushered him towards the stairs and told him I lived in Flat 3 . |
| 7 | I could n't think of a nice fellow to give it to . |
| 8 | I could n't think of a nice fellow to give it to . |
| 9 | For twenty minutes and more I could not think of a thing to write . |
| 10 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 11 | At first he sat looking at his feet , and she could not think of a thing to say . |
| 12 | Until she met Rainald she could not think of a future , with or without fitzAlan . |
| 13 | She could n't think of a lie quick enough . |
| 14 | She looked out over the rows of eager faces waiting for her to justify her educational policy , and she could n't think of a word to say . |
| 15 | ‘ And I only found out this morning from Dr Greene what a … a … | ’ she could n't think of a suitable word and said finally , ‘ … celebrated painter you are . ’ |
| 16 | And the salad stuff and fresh fruit and all that sort of thing , takes about the full length of our bar up you know , you , you could n't think of a salad that is n't there . |
| 17 | ‘ George Bradley came up with this great idea of putting an accordion band together for a record and we could n't think of a name , ’ said Emerald chief George Doherty . |
| 18 | He was holding the gun out like a target-shooter , everything wrong , and he did n't speak because he could n't think of a thing to say . |
| 19 | He admired a point which Stead had made about Polynesians and Christianity , but worried that he could not think of a Christian anthropologist . |
| 20 | He could not think of a single convincing excuse that would get him out of the house . |
| 21 | After citing passages from Amand 's case Sir John Donaldson M.R. , with whose judgment Kerr and Lloyd L.JJ. agreed , observed , at p. 977 , that he could not think of a case in which the order appealed from arose more clearly in a criminal cause or matter . |
| 22 | He was tall and strong and beautiful but he could never think like a man or a king . |