Example sentences of "[verb] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , and , and you deal very strongly with that , so if he 's saying , having , given quite a lot of considered thought to this |
| 2 | Mr Cox has thought of that . |
| 3 | I reckon that , that was a good id , I bet no one else has thought of that idea you know . |
| 4 | I wonder if she has thought of alternative means of transport ? |
| 5 | She said that she chose to write with other people when she wanted to write a story , because other people helped to think of more ideas , and it was more fun . |
| 6 | I tried to think of specific areas … like number of wins — home record — goals etc . |
| 7 | We agreed to these conditions , and tried to think of salacious things for Ted to tell Jean . |
| 8 | I tried to think of nice things ; then , when I could n't think of any , I determined to concentrate on what was happening around me . |
| 9 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 10 | He felt he was going to climax early and desperately tried to think of other things to take his mind off it in order to last until she was ready . |
| 11 | He tried to think of other names , and remembered one ; Olivia . |
| 12 | With a little frown , she tried to think of another reason . |
| 13 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 14 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 15 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 16 | Brian tried to think about all those theories — so abstruse to him — which maintained that unloved children became unloving mothers , abused children turned into abusers of their own offspring . |
| 17 | I tried to think about this but did n't succeed . |
| 18 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd need to think on that , ’ Richard replied , still without turning his gaze to the older man . |
| 20 | Teachers will need to think of new ways to plan timetables . |
| 21 | An actress has to think about these things . ’ |
| 22 | it is a funny film , you seen Roxanne where he plays a fucking funny , he has to think of twenty pornographic , the only women who can satisfy two by two women at once its got here , nature loving , too much , really love little bee , give a mat to sit on and stuff like that , your gon na fucking break that in a minute , time have you Mark ? |
| 23 | And that 's my problem , we keeping thinking about another one and doing things . |
| 24 | She 's daft as a brush when she starts thinking like that . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've long ago stopped thinking about that . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Is n't it time you stopped thinking about old debts and started winning some new contracts ? |
| 27 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd thought of that . ’ |
| 29 | And going away , he 'd thought of that too . |
| 30 | I thought I 'd thought of that first . ’ |