Example sentences of "think back to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 2 | ‘ Unless Flixe needs me , ’ he said , looking at his wife with a mixture of protectiveness and adoration that made Julia think back to her own honeymoon and wonder whether Anthony had ever looked at her like that . |
| 3 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 4 | Miles thought back to his first season as a hunter . |
| 5 | Manville thought back to his earlier conversation with Hayman , the discussion of the relative merits of the carrot and the stick . |
| 6 | ‘ Think back to your carefree youth before the cares of the world descended on your manly shoulders . ’ |
| 7 | Think back to your own conversion and how you began to search for God , however vaguely . |
| 8 | When I think back to my own childhood I remember only long sun-struck afternoons , the smell of dust under avenues of eucalyptus , the quiet rustle of water in roadside furrows , the lulling of doves . |
| 9 | It 's also the case I suppose that erm from the point of view of a child , thinking back to my own childhood , a lot of contact with grown-ups was was enormously traumatic and yet was considered by the grown-ups to be entirely legitimate . |
| 10 | ‘ This might make conservative , this , ’ says Clint , thinking back to his recent viewing of Basic Instinct , ’ but I think it 's a bad day , me , when people like Michael Douglas are seen fookin' noshing on a woman 's minge . |