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Example sentences of "[adv] think [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I hate to say this but I do rather think from the bruising that someone did it to him . ’
2	The thief rarely thinks of the consequences for the victim .
3	Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing .
4	‘ In all my years of motor racing , I can only think of a couple of times when I mastered the machine as at the Nürburgring in 1968 .
5	He could only think of the confessional 's stock-in-trade : ‘ Did you find pleasure in it , Luke ? ’
6	Children start off as self-centred little beings and they do not naturally think of the other person .
7	I had n't , but I decided I 'd better think of a few .
8	The other major Greek influence , Aristotle , classified all thought into the theoretical , practical or productive , concerned broadly with knowing , doing and making ( Ross 1928 ; pp. 993b , 1025b ) .
9	Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side .
10	That anti-social part of my brain suddenly thought about the greasy eggs and bacon again and my stomach geysered .
11	I put another case in front of it , an empty one , and suddenly thought of an old story in a childhood book .
12	But sometimes he only thought of the next performance .
13	He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side .
14	After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall .
15	I suddenly thought of a way I could help Herbert .
16	He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground .
17	For no good reason she suddenly thought of the bruise on his cheek , the slight blue stain he had tried to hide from her , and burst into angry tears as she ran .
18	Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have .
19	It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time .
20	In this country it is only the older , the inherited rich or a few intellectuals who are relaxed enough to think about the unprivileged .
21	You know how it is , you 're in the middle of nowhere when you suddenly think of a drum pattern and bass line for your latest track .
22	You know how it is , you 're in the middle of nowhere when you suddenly think of a drum pattern and bass line for your latest track .
23	He would look at Harry , the picture of health and happiness and , while marvelling at his steady uncomplicated progress , suddenly think of the child 's mother , a travesty of the woman he had once known , suffering , it would seem , from chronic post-natal depression , so much so that , on Winifred Shalcross 's advice , a second specialist had been called in .
24	So think of a function , keep it nice and simple , cos you 're gon na have to work it out .
25	So think of a question for each of them then and write then down what you might ask them .
26	Well I personally think with an appeal fund like that , I mean the amount of money that 's gone into it is ridiculous considering the amount of compensation that everybody 's going to get or hopes to get after it .
27	You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room .
28	One has only to think of the range of services to which an old person may or may not be entitled to see that , even if power is in general exercised responsibly , old people and their informal carers are particularly vulnerable to professional neglect , abuse of power or , more often and more excusably , to inexpert or biased assessment .
29	One has only to think of the way in which the Shah of Persia reinforced his position by claiming direct descent from the Achaemenids of the third century BC , to give depth to a genealogy that in fact started with his father — a Cossack officer — assuming the throne in 1920 when the previous dynasty collapsed ( see Avery , 1965 ) ; or the use in Britain of the ‘ historical ’ roots of the Royal Family to support such current political structures as the House of Lords .
30	One has only to think of the British motorcycle industry and its once-prime position to see the folly of believing you can sustain a world leading position without constant innovation .