Example sentences of "[vb past] think of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said that she chose to write with other people when she wanted to write a story , because other people helped to think of more ideas , and it was more fun . |
| 2 | I tried to think of specific areas … like number of wins — home record — goals etc . |
| 3 | We agreed to these conditions , and tried to think of salacious things for Ted to tell Jean . |
| 4 | I tried to think of nice things ; then , when I could n't think of any , I determined to concentrate on what was happening around me . |
| 5 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 6 | He felt he was going to climax early and desperately tried to think of other things to take his mind off it in order to last until she was ready . |
| 7 | He tried to think of other names , and remembered one ; Olivia . |
| 8 | With a little frown , she tried to think of another reason . |
| 9 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 10 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 11 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd thought of that . ’ |
| 13 | And going away , he 'd thought of that too . |
| 14 | I thought I 'd thought of that first . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd thought of that . ’ |
| 16 | ( Wish I 'd thought of that earlier ! ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd thought of that … in fact , she once mentioned Eddie to me . |
| 18 | Despite the material and social disadvantages that Harry had suffered as a child , he still seemed to think of those early years as happy ones . |
| 19 | Nigel began to think of other ways to finance his ‘ research ’ , since a large advance was not forthcoming . |
| 20 | I began to think of other things . |
| 21 | But they became even more closely connected when Hobbes began to think of geometrical figures in terms of the motions which would generate or produce them . |
| 22 | So this was a new strange quantum number , and I think really what happened as new quantum numbers became necessary to describe the new types of particles , people just began to think of more sort of strange names like charm and beauty and erm things like this , but they have no real connection with what we normally understand by charm and beauty , they are just quantum numbers . |
| 23 | He began to think of this as a problem . |
| 24 | She struggled to think of some plausible reason , to raise her voice above the incessant beat of the music , which was so loud , despite the closed door . |
| 25 | She kept thinking of that , of their telling Mrs Blakey in the kitchen and Mrs Blakey throwing her head back and laughing . |
| 26 | He kept thinking of Lucky Lady Firelight and himself aboard , constraining that nervous power that so intrigued him . |
| 27 | I protested loudly against the darkness , nature 's traps and , above all , kept thinking of those assailants who 'd attacked me yesterday . |
| 28 | Oh I kept thinking of this fire hazard thought I ca n't , I ca n't live with that any longer |
| 29 | I just preferred to think of dead fish rather than Syl . |
| 30 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |