Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] think [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no he was right that 's what I say you thinking about that thing , this is n't just doing it as it said , you ponder |
| 2 | Let us think about this idea for a moment . |
| 3 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 4 | Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ . |
| 5 | Suppose we think of these data as representing the marks of 50 students in statistics examinations ; the variable x , gives the marks at a Christmas examination and y gives the marks of the same students at Easter , the overall correlation being 0.523 . |
| 6 | I ask you to think of that mother , waiting anxiously for her child to return . |
| 7 | Except that is was for money , I know it was for money but er I do n't know the exact er Because I think I think in that year , we got what we called the Samuel award , that were three shillings a day , basic , you see ? |
| 8 | What do you think of that Agnes ? |
| 9 | What do you think of that question ? , |
| 10 | What do you think of that view ? |
| 11 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 12 | What do you think of that sort of situation ? |
| 13 | What do you think of that argument , you know , that law does n't really have a place in the intensive care unit ? |
| 14 | What do you think of that remark ? |
| 15 | The eminent novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch was asked in an interview in 1982 " What do you think of other forms and media , such as television ? " and I could not agree more with her reply which was " People say that British television is the best in the world but there is so much violence and such a lot of it is so terrible . |
| 16 | Moreover , my forays outdoors became adventures into loonyland : for instance , asking directions from a garage attendant : ‘ Lost , are you , Beattie ? 'Ere , boys — what do you think of young Melvyn , letting his mum out on the roads without a minder ? |
| 17 | Okay what do you think of these words ? |
| 18 | The thing is , oh yeah what do you think of those women that came ? |
| 19 | What do you think of those leaders ? ’ |
| 20 | What do you think of those resignations though ? |
| 21 | ‘ What do you think of this case ? ’ |
| 22 | What do you think of this club ? |
| 23 | Oh that Nanette phoned in and some of the country said what do you think of this thing he said . |
| 24 | I 'd say it , what do you think of this horse , and he 'd say oh , it 's carrying too much money . |
| 25 | ‘ They say things like ‘ How are you ? ’ and ‘ Have a nice day ’ and ‘ What do you think of this weather , then ? ’ |
| 26 | " What do you think of this weather , officer ? " |
| 27 | What do you think of conservation bodies ? |
| 28 | And do you think for one minute they care a damn about you ? |
| 29 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 30 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |