Example sentences of "[pron] to think " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |
| 2 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 3 | What right had I to think it might be easy ? |
| 4 | So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ ' |
| 5 | What else was I to think ? |
| 6 | What on earth am I to think ? |
| 7 | For as Socrates knew , a sequence of silly questions is a wonderful way of forcing someone to think out just what he believes and wants to say . |
| 8 | Modern Machiavellis have plenty to think about . |
| 9 | In that first quiet week of the ‘ phoney ’ war I had plenty to think about . |
| 10 | She already had plenty to think about . |
| 11 | As it turns out , he had plenty to think about . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect you have plenty to think about right now . ’ |
| 13 | Oxford gave Villa plenty to think about though ; made them sweat , had them panicking near the end and big Ron Atkinson was on the touchline to martial things . |
| 14 | Best goes home with plenty to think about |
| 15 | Give the horse plenty to think about so that he concentrates on his work rather than other exciting stimuli . |
| 16 | Get more friction on that , clever of somebody to think of that , did n't they ? |
| 17 | This powerfully confirmed the way in which Tolkien had been accustoming himself to think about the world ever since he grew to manhood . |
| 18 | Neither Mr Bush nor James Baker , his secretary of state ( who talks about Lithuania and Latvia with the visible enthusiasm of someone who has just sucked a lemon ) , can yet bring himself to think anything but the best of Mr Gorbachev , so helpful last year in Europe , so kind this year in the Gulf . |
| 19 | He commanded himself to think . |
| 20 | But suddenly , he 's only got himself to think about , and his life can change … |
| 21 | The Friar was bewildered by his loss and could not bring himself to think clearly about the disaster . |
| 22 | Another strange picture hung in Hilbert 's room , one that Adam had never allowed himself to think about . |
| 23 | He had answers to none of these questions and no spirit left to force himself to think about them . |
| 24 | Closing his eyes , he forced himself to think of his hatred for the colonial French . |
| 25 | He did n't allow himself to think about Zoe until he arrived at the field entrance to the cottage . |
| 26 | ‘ I will entertain your offer for his ransom , if he will publicly close his blood-feud against me , and pledge himself to think of it no more . ’ |
| 27 | Three hours in which to think of all that he had missed . |
| 28 | Fredric Jameson , in his article ‘ Postmodernism and the video-text ’ , comments that experimental video may , provide a useful vantage point from which to think about commercial television : |
| 29 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 30 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |