Example sentences of "to think [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the doctor seemed to think Sigarup would be all right — although his chances would have been better if they 'd brought him sooner . |
| 2 | But then she start putting my erm blouses on like , cos she probably seen somebody come in nice thinking oh dress up tomorrow and then I , in case he comes in and I used to think shit that had been in the wardrobe , alright I do n't wear them but I mean they 're still nice |
| 3 | I 'm beginning to think Sister had a point . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's strange , ’ said Marian , ‘ to think Tess will be his wife , not a fine lady , but a girl who lives like us . ’ |
| 5 | Well it may have been a grunt of irritation that his lovely hire-car was steaming up with two sweaty , stinking hill-walkers who had forced their way in uninvited , but I prefer to think disbelief . |
| 6 | The terms were staggering to anyone naive enough to think football was only a game . |
| 7 | ‘ Why , Wilson , ’ Mrs Browning said , opening her eyes wide , ‘ it had not occurred to me , nor I am sure to my husband , to think Ferdinando might not go with us . |
| 8 | Erm , I think the idea is that a woman is a man 's possession , that she should be subservient , she should do as she 's told and that she has no intelligent to think intelligence to think for herself ! |
| 9 | The suggestion to be explored is rather that to think difference culturally rather than sexually might be both more illuminating and more liberating . |
| 10 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
| 11 | Despite Ms Hastings warnings , there is little evidence that trusts and health authorities are taking time to think job evaluation through . |
| 12 | Now the bottle was labelled , rolled into a tray of dust , there was plenty of this in the cellar , for as Mr. Golding said ‘ Nobody likes to think wine is freshly drawn . ’ |
| 13 | Furthermore , this argument continued , the quantities of money available corrupted expectations and encouraged people to think development was essentially material advancement rather than community organization . |
| 14 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 15 | I suppose I ought to think quarter to six |
| 16 | He used these to preach that kings are made , and can only be unmade , by God , to whom solely they are responsible ; that sedition is opposed no less to God than to the king ; that it is a sin not merely to speak evil of the king but even to think evil of him . |
| 17 | He used to be fond of quoting this rhyme : There is so much bad in the best of us And so much good in the worst of us , That it ill becomes the rest of us , To think evil of any one of us . |
| 18 | Watching him ride thus , strongly recovering from wounds that might have killed a lesser man , and whistling softly and contentedly into the sea wind , it was impossible to think evil of him . |
| 19 | ‘ They used to think schizophrenia was a simple malfunction of the brain ; an imbalance in certain chemicals — dopamine , glutamic acid and gamma-amino-butyric acid . |
| 20 | I used to think sex was all about condoms and fellatio and getting girls to show you their underwear . |
| 21 | something I 've realized recently is that because I 've sort of , in a sense the C S M T side of things that I , because that 's a big area for me , I tend to think county wide about everything |
| 22 | The need for self-esteem and self-satisfaction is a major one for horses ; the horse , like a person , needs to think well of itself . |
| 23 | Probably the main reason why Indirect Rule acquired instant support from the British Government was that this was an assumption deeply rooted in the mental outlook of the English upper classes , who liked their inferiors to be able to think well of themselves . |
| 24 | If you want people to think well of you , do not speak well of yourself . |
| 25 | Claudia felt thoroughly let down ; she 'd been so sure he would , at last , be convinced of the truth , and she had n't realised how much she wanted him to think well of her until he had made it all too clear that he still did n't trust her . |
| 26 | Thus , while those favourably disposed towards the United States government had fallen to around 52 per cent by October 1956 ( just before the start of the Suez conflict ) 64 per cent continued to think well of the " American people " . |
| 27 | I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’ |
| 28 | It should not be supposed from such criteria for choosing Christianity or retaining paganism that pagans were so simple-minded as to think prosperity and material adversity automatic grounds for conversion or retention of paganism as the case might be . |