Example sentences of "think about [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 2 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 3 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 4 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 5 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 9 | It is debatable how far young readers should be automatising the reading skill , or attempting to think about it as a conscious act . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 12 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
| 13 | you 're seventeen years old , if you 're old enough to have sex surely you 're old enough to you know , think about it in a mature way . |
| 14 | If we think about it in a creative way the blossoms will come . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Darwin 's great innovation , for example , was not so much in finding out new flora and fauna during his voyage in the Beagle , but in thinking about them in a new and interesting fashion ; one of major consequence for our understanding of the nature of life on this planet and driving much of biological research explicating and developing the programme that Darwin 's theory initiated . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |