Example sentences of "[to-vb] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare . |
| 2 | Sometimes it was jolly nice , sometimes it was a bit fraught , and sometimes I had to remind myself not to start thinking of other things in the middle . |
| 3 | It is not too early to start thinking about sweeping reforms , as history shows . |
| 4 | Terry did n't appear to have thought about this before and he puzzled over it , staring into his bitter and a bag of smoky bacon crisps . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose I ought to have thought of that . |
| 6 | ‘ How silly we are not to have thought of that before , ’ she said . |
| 7 | ‘ You ought to have thought of that before you drove into my car . |
| 8 | Would not Opposition Members like to have thought of that idea and put it through in legislation ? |
| 9 | Miguel Rafaelo did n't seem to have thought of that . |
| 10 | I saw him redden : he was ashamed to have thought like this . |
| 11 | It would have been tempting for an adviser to have thought in 1968 that a solus agreement involving the exclusive purchase of petrol was of sufficiently established commercial importance to fall within that class of cases to which Lord Wilberforce said the restraint of trade doctrine would not apply . |
| 12 | Richard did not like to have to think about two things at once , particularly at the end of the day . |
| 13 | ‘ It helps me to stop thinking about all this . ’ |
| 14 | It can seek to clarify thinking about other aspects of the relationship between language and thought . |
| 15 | Looking at this as one of the points of research avoids some of the narrowness of the kind of conception that has tended to dominate thinking about social research , namely that it is about testing theoretical explanations of the facts . |
| 16 | The obvious examples are hypercholesterolaemia , cancer of the colon and autoimmune disease ; the time to begin thinking of these approaches is now . |