Example sentences of "think [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 2 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 3 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 4 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 5 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 6 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 7 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 8 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 9 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 10 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 11 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 12 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 13 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 14 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 15 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 16 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 17 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 18 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , you know , like he says he was coming up to you — this is the way I look at it — coming up to ask you to lend , say , a lawnmower , right — this is when he 's no drunk , ordinary sober , you know — and he 'll be walking up to you and thinking about it at the same time . |
| 20 | He 's still alive and yet I keep thinking of him in the past tense . |
| 21 | One note of warning : Do n't let your colleagues go on thinking of you as the former messenger once you graduate to production . |