Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I like you , Breeze , and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do . |
| 2 | The editor has thought of something else he wishes to tell us |
| 3 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 4 | The author has thought of every thing , you can even play in tournament mode to pit your wits against family or friends . |
| 5 | Hang on hang on metal and acid say think of the zinc and which acid was it we used H two S O four , what did the zinc do to the hydrogen ? |
| 6 | Does he agree that when Kent County Engineering Society recently held a seminar for primary school heads and local businesses , it turned out that not a single local business had thought of trying to interest primary school children in science and engineering . |
| 7 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |
| 8 | , there 's stuff come to think of it it 's the one in the hall . |
| 9 | ‘ What on earth must those men at the station have thought of me ? ’ |
| 10 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 11 | On the question of religion , the Buddhist tends to think of it as a raft with which to cross the tempestuous seas of existence , and the Buddha once asked , " What would you say to someone who carried his raft around with him when he had arrived ? " |
| 12 | At first Folly had thought of reversing the roles , nervously picturing the arrival of a furious Luke , and the subsequent scene . |
| 13 | No man likes to think of his daughter … well , you know what I mean . |
| 14 | George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well . |
| 15 | And that was certainly what the audience seemed to think of ’ Moby Dick ’ at the curtain call , with a standing ovation and some joining is as the cast took a bow , it certainly is a whale of a tale . |
| 16 | Bit of a hopeless case come to think of it . |
| 17 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 18 | I delayed switching the computer off while I racked my brain trying to think of some way of saving them , but there was none . |
| 19 | Who on earth wants to think of following a slimming diet for ever . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's all anyone wants , and the time to have thought of it was when you were rich . ’ |
| 21 | In in making our representations about erm a major exceptions policy erm the regional office had thought of it very much as a a facilitating policy to deal only with exceptional cases . |
| 22 | Her mother had thought of some new worry . |
| 23 | The obvious examples are hypercholesterolaemia , cancer of the colon and autoimmune disease ; the time to begin thinking of these approaches is now . |
| 24 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |