Example sentences of "[adv] think of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody somewhere thinks of this as home , |
| 2 | ‘ I could only think of stupid , unimportant questions . |
| 3 | I could only think of that oh so English phrase ‘ It 's not fair ’ . |
| 4 | I can only think of two adverts with Black children on . |
| 5 | I can only think of two things small enough and valuable enough : precious stones or drugs . ’ |
| 6 | But somehow Folly could only think of one person who might have sent her so tantalising a message . |
| 7 | At one point the heroine wants to go out , but can only think of one place to go with a baby in a pram : the launderette . |
| 8 | They could only think of another children 's home . |
| 9 | group you did n't , if you 'd said no there , I just threw it down and said well , you 'd better think of another one . |
| 10 | We can all think of other examples . |
| 11 | Some sick part of my mind suddenly thought of fried eggs lying thick with grease on a plate , surrounded with bacon , curled and scooped and holding little pools of fat , the outsides of the plate dotted with coagulated lumps Gf grease . |
| 12 | Otherwise his life would not have been possible , because he only thought of that every night , and every day too . ’ |
| 13 | Time enough to think of that when it happened . |
| 14 | So think of some number right divide it by a hundred and twenty now we want to get it back to the number we first thought of so what |
| 15 | Only think of all my anxiety , the fears and sorrows I have had to endure for the last fortnight … |
| 16 | You have only to think of such ordeals as driving tests or interviews . |
| 17 | We have only to think of numberless caged birds the world over who are better fed , more healthy , and longer lived than their fellows in the wild , yet apparently contented despite their inability to do little more than flap their wings . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you ? ’ said Bob , too worn down to think of any intelligent reply . |
| 19 | Are the rich and poor perhaps thinking of different laws when answering this question ? |
| 20 | She 'd not think of that … |
| 21 | Why did I not think of that , then ? |
| 22 | They did not think of that … ’ |
| 23 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 24 | standard sort of middle class thing but the pre thin they might not think of that because people sort of quite often think of that as not being an accent . |
| 25 | No , she would not think of that — no , never that , and she began to wield her feather duster with such angry vigour that Dr Neil , coming in , was amused at her bright energy which even the ever-lasting drudgery which she performed could not dim . |
| 26 | ‘ What a pity someone did not think of that before ! |
| 27 | I can not think of many times when I have been able to say that the Green party is very much on our side in this matter . |
| 28 | At that time I did not think of other people , and what the creature could do to them . |
| 29 | However , a child , having the book read to them , would not think of such complex ideas , and after all the book was designed for a child . |
| 30 | I honestly can not think of one good thing which Labour proposes to do . |