Example sentences of "to think [prep] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't even begin to think about such a question |
| 2 | Normally , you will have an opportunity to look over the machine and to sit in the cockpit beforehand to think about all the knobs and levers . |
| 3 | Then I need to think about all the strangeness that happened to you as a child ; my firstborn son has already told me something of your life , and of the questions you have for me . ’ |
| 4 | I remember trying to think of all the troops who would line up behind me , and realizing that there was only Anne . |
| 5 | Frankie stared at the floor and tried not to think of all the things he might have done , or failed to do , to cause this latest upset . |
| 6 | Either you put some flesh on the bones of your idea and your plan really takes off , or you begin to think of all the reasons why it wo n't work after all . |
| 7 | I tend to think of all the convenience food as junk but I 'm sure some must be better than others . ’ |
| 8 | Yet it was comforting , too , when he was alone — especially at night — to say her name to himself and to think of all the good things about her . |
| 9 | I could not believe it ; I had another 30 minutes to think of all the things that could go wrong . |
| 10 | In this case , they suggest , the hearer is encouraged to think of all the implicatures that the speaker could reasonably have expected someone to have derived from the proposition that his childhood days are gone , and then assume that there are still further implicatures that the speaker wants to back . |
| 11 | Sociologists wanted to have their results accepted as scientifically accurate , have worked in the same way , but not always successfully , when dealing with people , is not always to easy to think of all the things which may affect the result . |
| 12 | There 's a heck of a lot of burning off when you come to think of all the burning off of paint we 're going to have to do . |
| 13 | And as for him going up Back Clough Dale and mithering the folk up there , and all for nothing — well , I reckon you 've lost your brains , my lad , to think of such a thing . |
| 14 | It would never have occurred to Nathan Holland , the young man on whose arm she leant , to think of such a thing ; he had worked with Paul Arkwright in the publishing house which turned out many of the latter 's books on philosophy , and soon Paul had asked him , knowing his astonishing gift for languages , if he would translate some of them . |
| 15 | How typical of Iris to think of such a detail at a time like this . |
| 16 | In an economic upturn that may change , of course , but I think they all get jobs of some sort , and I would have hoped that a chemistry degree , a good training in chemistry , would in fact also train people to think in such a way that they could apply it to a lot of other areas . |