Example sentences of "think [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular acts found by the judge are we think rather on the borderline of what can properly be regarded as constituting possession , always apart from the consideration of adverse possession . |
| 2 | That to me is worth more than silver , for I think much about the state of the land in these strange times , with snow falling in midsummer and the Giants wandering the hills . ’ |
| 3 | He believes that sheep farmers who think only about the pound in their pocket could be doing themselves a great disservice . |
| 4 | Many people , on hearing the word ‘ relationships ‘ , think only of the interaction between one man and one woman . |
| 5 | Think perhaps of a piece of lea , what could you do with that ? |
| 6 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 7 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 8 | Er certainly until the I think probably until the end of the war . |
| 9 | Think carefully about the relationship between pay , profit and performance . |
| 10 | Think carefully about the meaning of the question(s) Questions may be straightforward or they may be deliberately provocative . |
| 11 | Think carefully about the meaning of the question/subject posed The same question may admit to several different interpretations . |
| 12 | I would like to say in general Mr I think that as a Committee we should welcome this report which does , it really does er has done a very thorough job and ha a a and provides us now with a s understandable framework and and time scale work when you 've got target and when brought forward or shown to any member of the complex that that erm I think provisionally with the backlog of what is now ready to tackle the result onto our and commissioner is grant er , er grant , erm there will be , it will be like an enormous benefits not just in those areas that John has taken us to but in general atmosphere which kind of be very tense and competition and I think we 'll be , be seeing the action in this token er within it will be er target time , erm real pro real progress will be this I think the feeling of that will going , come by will , will , will be a lot of ruling er in this area and maybe even start to er leave the question from er as a result and the signal to the users of our serv , of the services and erm would go out of here in a planned way and in answer to er fairly speedily and you know what or reduce the erm the aggro . |
| 13 | As far as Mr Collier 's point er alternative policies concerned , I think listening to it and only half having perhaps digested the full implication , I think really as a matter of principle we 're not un unsympathetic to a lot of what what a lot of people are suggesting there . |
| 14 | But erm I think really at the end of the day staff have only really had just that one day workshop , |
| 15 | I rarely think now about the strangeness of the job , I simply enjoy the wonderful views and the job satisfaction I achieve . |
| 16 | Now think again of the wound on Hector 's face — a heavy blow , a wide gash . |
| 17 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |