Example sentences of "[coord] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 2 | No idea how to play as a team or to think of other people . |
| 3 | Of course we have books on herbs and mediaeval remedies , and my middle daughter is a vegetarian who grows her organic vegetables in the form of the letters CND and recycles her night soil , but I had never consciously meditated , relaxed , watched my diet , had any particular way of eating , consulted an acupuncturist , nor thought in holistic terms . |
| 4 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 5 | ‘ Er — just the one night , I think , ’ she replied , having hoped not to stay even that long but suddenly realising that , since she needed some kind of base where she could go to collect her thoughts , that perhaps to have a room where she could relax and think in private was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 6 | Yet , have n't we tried to teach and think in non-racial history ? |
| 7 | She looked out to sea , as far as she could through the mist , and thought of great trees whispering under the waves . |
| 8 | Everyone looked at everyone else and thought of urgent matters to attend to elsewhere . |
| 9 | Ranulf took up the argument as Corbett looked away and thought of old Dame Martha drowning in her bath-water . |
| 10 | In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) . |
| 11 | and think of tattooed gravestones — love letters lost in all the long grass . |
| 12 | ‘ The feeling was indescribable and nowadays when things do n't quite go as planned I often sit back and think of other jockeys who never had a Derby win and who , for the remainder of their careers , will be chasing this elusive rainbow . |
| 13 | So , what I would suggest is that you certainly have a word with the police and draw their attention to it and if anybody listening has parked their car there , do please consider just how safe it is where you 're parking and think of other people . |
| 14 | Yes , just , can we just , while I 'm thinking about this , try and think of positive things . |
| 15 | for sale and think of wet boots |
| 16 | I propose , therefore , to enjoy this last cigarette , warm my hands above the stumpy candle , and think with due care and compassion about the true story I have to relate . |
| 17 | It was the ideal opportunity to learn and develop new ideas and think about new techniques . |
| 18 | Mr MacDuff asked jurors to ignore what they felt about the princesses ' awful behaviour , and think about fair compensation . |
| 19 | Yet there is little doubt that in most countries a good deal more could be done to get people talking and thinking about proposed changes . |
| 20 | In their book Discourse in Action in the series Reading and Thinking in English Moore et al . |