Example sentences of "think for a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Let me think for a while . ’ |
2 | ‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute . |
3 | Do n't think for a minute I 'm jealous . |
4 | Naturally I did n't think for a minute that my life and spirit could stimulate her . |
5 | I do n't think for a minute that I can work them out in movies . |
6 | I do n't think for a minute we 'll have to . ’ |
7 | I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’ |
8 | ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child . |
9 | Right , well let's just think for a minute exactly what you just said , can you repeat to me roughly what you 've just said ? |
10 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
11 | It 's a frustrating affair though — do n't think for a second that you can breeze through this game ; think yourself lucky if you get past the first few levels ! |
12 | The effect is to make you think for a second that the church is only half there , that there must once have been a second side to it , to the right of the tower . |
13 | ‘ Well , now that we 've decided that nothing is going to happen tonight that does n't happen every Saturday night in Pepe 's Bar , tell me — why on earth can you even think for a second that Miguel is falling for me ? ’ |
14 | Do n't you think for a rock'n'roll band it is somewhat stupid to promote this government idea , especially here in Belgium ? ’ |
15 | But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ’ |
16 | I 'd love to help her , and I know every one of us would ; but I do n't think for a moment that Miss Miggs would let us pay her fare , even if we could raise so much money . ’ |
17 | And I do n't think for a moment that I 'm alone in feeling this way . |
18 | Aggressive criticisms of assembly-line education such as this from the 1930s should cause us to stop and think for a moment . |
19 | Do n't think for a moment that the women are all on the creative side of the business . |
20 | He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces . |
21 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
22 | He should think for a moment what that means . |
23 | Let us think for a moment about some of those who have been left behind . |
24 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |