Example sentences of "[adv] think of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody somewhere thinks of this as home , |
| 2 | ‘ I could only think of stupid , unimportant questions . |
| 3 | I could only think of that oh so English phrase ‘ It 's not fair ’ . |
| 4 | I can only think of two adverts with Black children on . |
| 5 | I can only think of two things small enough and valuable enough : precious stones or drugs . ’ |
| 6 | But somehow Folly could only think of one person who might have sent her so tantalising a message . |
| 7 | At one point the heroine wants to go out , but can only think of one place to go with a baby in a pram : the launderette . |
| 8 | They could only think of another children 's home . |
| 9 | group you did n't , if you 'd said no there , I just threw it down and said well , you 'd better think of another one . |
| 10 | We can all think of other examples . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Otherwise his life would not have been possible , because he only thought of that every night , and every day too . ’ |
| 13 | Time enough to think of that when it happened . |
| 14 | So think of some number right divide it by a hundred and twenty now we want to get it back to the number we first thought of so what |
| 15 | Only think of all my anxiety , the fears and sorrows I have had to endure for the last fortnight … |
| 16 | You have only to think of such ordeals as driving tests or interviews . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Are the rich and poor perhaps thinking of different laws when answering this question ? |
| 19 | After an intensive rehabilitation programme of physiotherapy and speech therapy , Elinor appeared to have completely recovered from her stroke , although she could no longer think of three things at once , which Buzz said was a mercy for the people who had to live with her . |
| 20 | Do n't , let let let's just think of that for a moment as an experience , erm , as far as money is concerned . |
| 21 | It 's a curiosity , of course , and perhaps best thought of that way , for the light it throws on Mozart 's attitude to the musical past . |
| 22 | I do n't actually say that I view his piano playing as if he 's a miniature mixture of Oscar Peterson , Oscar Borge , Chico Marx , Russ Conway and Les Dawson , because I 've only just thought of that . |
| 23 | ‘ The priapic practitioner , ’ said Lydia , who had just thought of this appellation . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've already thought of that , ’ Mandeville muttered . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd already thought of that , ’ Laura told her gloomily . |
| 26 | But Louise had already thought of that . |
| 27 | We 've already thought of that cos my bike |
| 28 | Head comes in , has already thought of this , and agrees to organize a collection from staff for fruit or whatever . |
| 29 | had to take a sort of erm south to erm not just thought of both the names and the other one but they would be nearer to Exeter but it would n't be sort of in Exeter itself I was thinking , you know , probably get erm you know , see if there 's any new houses being built there and what sort of price and what have you . |
| 30 | It is too soon to think of such things . |