Example sentences of "think of [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 2 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 3 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 4 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 5 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 6 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 7 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 8 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 9 | And I thought of putting something in the paper , asking anyone born on April the tenth that year at Thorn House to get in touch . |
| 10 | It is curious how agents only rarely think of providing you with a plan on a voluntary basis . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 13 | ‘ I was thinking of putting her to a very nice stallion I 've seen in the district , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 15 | You may be thinking of treating yourself to a holiday erm or something of that kind . |
| 16 | As a matter of fact , I 'm thinking of offering her to The Lancet . |