Example sentences of "[noun sg] think [prep] that " in BNC.

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1 Dot thought about that place where they 'd visited him long ago , with soldiers guarding the main gate , and long low buildings surrounded by grass clipped so flat there was nowhere for a running man to hide .
2 Topaz thought about that for a while .
3 I often wonder what the Hon. members of the Board thought about that trip , but they seemed to enjoy themselves and there were no repercussions .
4 But it 's not our job to think about that , it 's outside our influence .
5 I think I 've suggested the problem now , and now I 'm going to leave the parties to think about would be a need for expansion , expansion involves built developm think I 'll under the circumstances I 'll give you er the the normal time , and I will adjourn now until two fifteen to have a chance to think about that .
6 Trust a woman to think of that first .
7 ( Wonder which genius thought of that . )
8 It is a mistake to think of that earlier period as a flippant approach to the problem of making art .
9 It is the quest to think of that peculiar essence of which its physical nature is the more or less full actualisation .
10 ‘ I should think she has good reason to think like that , ’ she told him .
11 ‘ And what would the boyfriend think of that ? ’
12 But there was no time to think about that .
13 No child will gain pleasure or motivation from a chart if a parent is half-hearted in giving out a sticker or says , ‘ I have n't got time to think about that now ’ .
14 She took time to think about that , then lifted the telephone .
15 He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all .
16 I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain .
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