Example sentences of "could think " in BNC.
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| 1 | she could think of nothing but her son . |
| 2 | Both men were dubious about how long someone would be able to endure in the winter , equally they could think of no alternative . |
| 3 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 4 | I could think of nothing except going to London and finding my way among its tall buildings studded with lights . |
| 5 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 6 | ‘ Any damn fool … could think of questions ; it was answers that separated the men from the boys . ’ |
| 7 | No one could think that improvement is not necessary to safety , especially in quarrying , construction , diving or works transport . |
| 8 | If we could think of a better system we would introduce it . |
| 9 | He found that he could make a speech — that is , he could think on his feet , and not be at a loss for words . |
| 10 | But the actual letter survives and only a mind predisposed to suspect the sender could think it pompous : ‘ After the most careful consideration I have decided , if you are willing that I should do so , to recommend your name for the succession to the see of Durham . ’ |
| 11 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 12 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 13 | He could think quick enough when he had to . |
| 14 | Before I could think any more my mouth had decided . |
| 15 | Eva was only two then , and all I could think was that he 'd stolen my little girl . |
| 16 | ‘ It was the greatest incentive I could think of . |
| 17 | ‘ We did everything that we could think of to get the name Balbirnie flying up there , ’ Brown says . |
| 18 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 19 | Yes , you could think and dance at the same time . |
| 20 | This was obvious to anyone who could think , ’ it says . |
| 21 | ‘ Better files than people , I told him , but that did not interest him : all he could think of was the files . ’ |
| 22 | The busker who plays Chariots Of Fire on a Casio organ at Bank would leave it in a trice if only he could think of some other way of turning a penny . |
| 23 | Meinhard Miegel , once a Christian Democratic politician , who heads the Institut für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ( Institute for Economics and Society ) in Bonn , could think of no influential German think-tank — even the one run by Greens — that did not accept the basic tenets of the social market . |
| 24 | He is not , he says , one who ‘ detracts from the existence or reality of things ’ ; and anyone who thinks otherwise ‘ is very far from understanding what hath been premised in the plainest terms I could think of ’ . |
| 25 | It was the only person he could think of . |
| 26 | Nigel 's sympathetic male editor agreed to ask all the good-looking women writers he could think of . |
| 27 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |
| 28 | Just for her own satisfaction she pulled the very worst one she could think of — worse than any of Oz 's — with her cheeks blown out , her eyes crossed and the tip of her tongue protruding . |
| 29 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 30 | All he could think of was the small , dark , murderous hole . |