Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignorant men regard death with fear and avoid thinking about it , and for that reason it becomes like a terror to children . |
| 2 | He sat down on a rock and tried to think . |
| 3 | It has to do with quitting work and needing to think about things I never used to think about . |
| 4 | He also feared the growth of Aminis influence and began to think that the reforms his prime ministers proposed were too extensive . |
| 5 | I stopped for a second and tried to think what my conclusive proof was . |
| 6 | I remember a friend in a pub and remember thinking : |
| 7 | This often took place in the pub and involved thinking aloud . |
| 8 | Stop spewing shit and start thinking — SW |
| 9 | As you gain experience and begin to think about a first cross-country , local soaring provides a golden opportunity to check the compass for large errors and to get some practice at turning on to definite headings . |
| 10 | ‘ I got there on one A-level and kept thinking I should n't really be here . |
| 11 | He sat on his own doorstep and tried to think what to do . |
| 12 | Whatever else , McIllvanney ran a good boatyard and hated to think of it being vandalised . |
| 13 | The creative springboard starts with a good client brief and then you dive from there into the pool of ideas and solutions which come from sound and considered thinking . |
| 14 | Big companies have long seen the advantages of training by computer but have thought technology immature . |
| 15 | Very rarely you would come across a person that seemed to think that you were beneath them and ought to do as they said . |
| 16 | Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer . |
| 17 | Twoflower sat down on his bunk and tried to think . |
| 18 | Neville Southall , whose saves had prevented Forest running away with the game in the first half , gathered the ball and started to think about clearing it but in the view of the referee , George Tyson , he had thought too long . |
| 19 | ‘ Put on a white tie and try to think it is your wedding . ’ |
| 20 | I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in |
| 21 | We 'll read them through and pause for a while and try to think of the , also in terms of the physical , you know , erm staging . |
| 22 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 23 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 24 | Instead , I return to the living-room and try to think about art . |
| 25 | Then he leaned back in his chair and started to think of Topaz . |
| 26 | She took a deep breath and tried to think what she should do . |
| 27 | To respond effectively , we must understand the purchaser 's strategy and have thought through in advance with the purchaser how best to present its case . |
| 28 | However , on balance a majority of UK economists have appeared to favour the discretionary cost-benefit approach or have thought the rules approach too dogmatic ( see e.g. Sutherland 1970 , Howe 1972 , Utton 1975 , Fleming and Swann 1989 , and George 1989 ) , and have tended to argue for a continuance of the present investigatory policy with some considerable strengthening of procedures . |
| 29 | It may help your child to hold on to memories of the past and to begin to think about changes in the future by painting pictures , making a tape recording or keeping a scrapbook of family events . |
| 30 | He admits he lost his naiveté and began to think more deeply about his own work and photojournalism generally . |