Example sentences of "to think about [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee turned her head away , looked down at her own navel and tried not to think about her mother . |
| 2 | She can not afford to think about her mother just now . |
| 3 | Shiona shrugged , not needing to think about her answer . |
| 4 | So he decided to give her time to think about their relationship , and wrote to her , at Marlott , instead of going to see her . |
| 5 | And maybe not even have time to think about their relationship to be able to sort out any deep problems , and maybe they 're getting put , put aside . |
| 6 | ‘ If I can get the British public to think about their sex life , I 'm sure I can get Hillary Clinton to do a good PR job on herself . ’ |
| 7 | They are the daily fare of our news bulletins , but we rarely stop to think about their relevance for our own state . |
| 8 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 9 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 10 | A survey carried out by the British Market Research Bureau revealed that nearly half of Britain 's working population refuse to think about their retirement , with one in three couples admitting that they never even discuss old age between themselves . |
| 11 | Our aim is to reduce the number of new HIV infections by giving young people the facts about AIDS and by encouraging them to think about their future . |
| 12 | For " reading for meaning " to occur it is necessary for recognition to become automatised through practice , because until the reader no longer spends time thinking about the identity of individual words , he or she will not be able to think about their role in the sentence . |
| 13 | McIllvanney did not even need to think about his answer , but just shook his head . |
| 14 | I started to think about my childhood again , about my parents and my sister . |
| 15 | The experience forced me to think about our drug policies . |
| 16 | Again one could draw as it were a sort of a picture of erm one 's true self as a sort of largish lump , er much of which was the body and then within this smaller portion which is the soul , and within that a still smaller portion which is the mind , and then in all of us there is present to us the one , and we 're told that we ought to think about our body , that it is not our true self . |
| 17 | I think you need to think about your title for this procedure and it 's best title may not be continuous . |
| 18 | With practice this skill becomes instinctive and you do n't have to think about your sailing — you can just switch yourself to ‘ automatic pilot ’ and concentrate on other aspects of the race . |
| 19 | We 've got to think about your arm . ’ |