Example sentences of "[pron] think [prep] all " in BNC.
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1 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
2 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
3 | As I watched them , I thought about all the crazy things the people I 've grown up with believe and do . |
4 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
5 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
6 | I thought of all the multitudes who had lain upon its hard , steel bed staring upwards , their fears and hopes filling the room , waiting only for its pronouncements when can easily turn into a foe . |
7 | Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed . |
8 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
9 | I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool . |
10 | I remembered the honesty of Masquerade in a force five wind , and then I thought of all the good days to come ; days of Ellen and me and Masquerade in far seas , and I must have smiled , for Robin-Anne nodded approval of whatever silent answer I was framing to her question . |
11 | I thought of all the people called Gray that I knew , not many really for such a common name . |
12 | I thought of all the possibilities , and it seemed to me it was there all the time , but I had n't seen it . |
13 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
14 | I thought with all this . |
15 | It 's not what I thought at all . |
16 | I think about all the things we used to do . |
17 | Er as I think about all of us today , it seems to me that the , that that which endures is human relationships . |
18 | Mr Haselhurst said : ‘ I think on all the previous evidence the last thing that will happen now will be a fall in unemployment . ’ |
19 | What I think of all this will have to await the publication of my book . ’ |
20 | ‘ I think of all the boys that came after , all the ones that went before too and were subjected to Gilly 's approach to education . ’ |
21 | When I think of all those young lives already in jeopardy … ’ |
22 | When I think of all those Cornish pasties , Cornish clotted cream and many of our eating habits in our childhood , I wonder whether all these panic measures are entirely necessary . |
23 | ‘ When I think of all those months I lived in the Store , not even knowing about the Outside … . ’ |
24 | It sickens me every time I think of all the money Caliban has won ; and of all the other people like him who win money . |
25 | It is not only me , I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war . |
26 | I think of all the people I know , and I ca n't remember how any of them behave . |
27 | ‘ When I think of all the hours you spend trying to help people with their problems … ’ |
28 | When I think of all the social problems there are I mean Creggan has everything . |
29 | ‘ When I think of all the time they 've wasted , trying to prove me guilty while the real killer goes free … ’ |
30 | Yes , I mean it 's generally true is n't it I think of all societies I ca n't think of any o of , of any exceptions that it normally is older males who have more resources . |