Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it might look a bit strange , even antiquated , to anyone who has only ever thought of guitar tuners as pocket sized oblong boxes with LEDs or a needle and a retail price of around forty quid , the Peterson 's ability to accurately tune any musical instrument is known throughout the music industry . |
| 2 | To his surprise he finds himself basically in agreement on a wide range of questions which he has never really thought about before . |
| 3 | Pip has never really thought about his features until this point and from then on wants to be a gentleman because he has instantly fallen in love with Estella and wants to impress her , and make her love him . |
| 4 | But he 'd never really thought about the insides . |
| 5 | He 'd never really thought about it before today . |
| 6 | Of course one effect of the making of these revelations would have been to put D's record ( if he had one ) in issue as well , so that the jury would have had even more to think about to assist them in the weighing of the evidence in this case or ( depending on how you look at it ) to distract them from it . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh that 's all right , ’ she answered blithely , adding quite without thinking , ‘ In my job I often collect a scratch or two from some over-exuberant canine . ’ |
| 8 | He was initially given a senior position at the Command Centre in the United Nations but when the head of the European operation died in a car crash … which was subsequently proved to have been an accident and not sabotage as originally thought … |
| 9 | But as you 've spent so long thinking it over , I suspect that , deep down , you 've decided it is n't really worth the risk . |
| 10 | Jürgen Habermas , by temperament and by his own admission , has devoted relatively little thought to the aesthetic sphere . |
| 11 | When Harry , without complications or much assistance , arrived that same evening , she remembered ever afterwards thinking quite clearly how much easier it was to bear physical than mental pain . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won . |
| 13 | And I think well just think how many people would die if they did n't have the transfusions ! |
| 14 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I 've only just thought of it . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't actually say that I view his piano playing as if he 's a miniature mixture of Oscar Peterson , Oscar Borge , Chico Marx , Russ Conway and Les Dawson , because I 've only just thought of that . |
| 16 | So tiny I 've only just thought of it . ’ |
| 17 | I , no I 've only just thought of it , I 'd take it with me if , if we 'd seen it . |
| 18 | If only Mark could have got a living in a better district , she thought , as she had so often thought before . |
| 19 | Fortunately , the good citizens of Geneva had enough else to think about at this juncture . |
| 20 | I thought that was very interesting , for Richard had obviously never thought it worth mentioning that she was n't white . |
| 21 | Let's If I write down Okay the which I 've just suddenly thought of were er |
| 22 | ‘ I 've just never thought about it . ’ |
| 23 | She had somehow always thought that love should be made with the mind as well as the body . |
| 24 | From that day to this Adam had never set eyes on Mary Gage and had hardly ever thought of her . |
| 25 | And I 've always secretly thought , Carmen will be another spinster . |
| 26 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 27 | Alison had probably never thought about getting . |
| 28 | Mr Clare had clearly never thought of this before . |
| 29 | Married to the first man who asked you , and I bet you 've never even thought of being unfaithful , even with that hunk Martin hanging around . ’ |
| 30 | And then something ha no that is completely in your mind because I 'm rude to people all the time and I 've never even thought about it and I still do things and I do n't , you know , it does n't even cross my mind . |