Example sentences of "[adv] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could only think of stupid , unimportant questions . |
| 2 | We can all think of other examples . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Dying 's a hard enough thought for old men , and terrible past bearing , maybe , for a boy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Are the rich and poor perhaps thinking of different laws when answering this question ? |
| 7 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 8 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 9 | You some of you are already thinking of easy things to ask . |
| 10 | Riven was already thinking of bright hearths and warm beds as they made their way along the summits , following Bicker in single file now , their mounts ' hoofs throwing up bobbles of snow that were swept away into the air as quickly as they were kicked up . |
| 11 | Although the Aylesbury area still has an unemployment rate which is below the national average , the job loses have come as a blow , but the district council is already thinking about other uses for the site . |
| 12 | Well I suppose you 're erm er addressing some of those different aspects as it is but again y'know in a sense I 'm happy if you 're happy but I 'm just thinking of different ways of doing it |
| 13 | ‘ I was just thinking about poor old Eddy . |
| 14 | So Carson asks only very public questions — about the worst review in Connery 's career , the early life , whether he ever thinks of retiring , about golf and his new movie . |
| 15 | As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high , pointed hats and long sweeping gowns . |
| 16 | People still think in racial terms , whereas we are pioneering multi-racial rugby as a way of life . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , but you 're still thinking of specific men . |
| 18 | Today the marketing executive has the responsibility for co-ordinating all aspects of a product or service : packaging , labelling and presenting the product in a manner likely to improve its saleability , then fully exploiting existing markets , always thinking of new ideas and plans for creating new markets . |
| 19 | ONE of Harold Gale 's attributes is that he perpetually thinks of new ideas . |
| 20 | Er whereas if you ask somebody to name an accent they 'd probably think of regional varieties , urban varieties , |
| 21 | When we saw Liz 's auburn colouring we instantly thought of pre-Raphaelite curls , and prepared to get out the tongs . |
| 22 | Even the parents looked worried this time — probably thinking of legal liabilities , Hoomey thought . |
| 23 | Barkaloff said that a Polish government agency is also thinking of developing pen-based applications , and may act as a reseller of the GRiDs to the public sector . |
| 24 | I was also thinking of sick slogans : - ) |
| 25 | The distinction has to be noted ( because traditionally thinking in criminal law seems to regard it as important ) between a request by the patient that treatment be discontinued which is complied with and a request by the patient that someone stabs him to death which is complied with . |
| 26 | I wonder if they have really thought about other people 's situations . |
| 27 | Most of the people … had n't really thought about civil rights ; they had come , with a sort of friendly curiosity , to hear something . |
| 28 | Some young men never have really thought about personal hygiene very much and react very badly if the subject is mentioned . |
| 29 | ‘ Now if you 'd like me to tell you what I really think of United Motors after all these years , I 'll do so . ’ |
| 30 | He tried now to think with savage pleasure of the dismay likely to afflict his mother , once her female companions heard of it . |