Example sentences of "[pron] think of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the kind of place best avoided after dark ; it makes me think of poor Moley , and Ratty 's warning , and that 's why I call it the Wild Wood . |
| 2 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 3 | I thought of other things ; a fast hockey-match , an adventure story , the problems in a game of chess , a field of snowdrops and crocus in springtime , the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven and as many other happy subjects as I could conjure up . |
| 4 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 5 | In fact , I thought of interior designing , but you really need the right connections for that . ’ |
| 6 | I thought of hypothetical dangers — murderers , rapists ; and I have no doubt that such are abroad at night in the most unlikely of places at the most unlikely of times . |
| 7 | I thought of Biblical characters dressed in white flowing robes walking about the arid plains of Palestine or striding along the shores of the Sea of Galilee , making lepers leap into the air and hurl away their bells . |
| 8 | ‘ Then he wanted to know what I thought of young Hilary , ’ said Tom . |
| 9 | I thought of cold nights in Edinburgh and went everywhere with a relaxation I had rarely felt in Peru . |
| 10 | I thought of old Mrs Drury 's place , ’ said his secretary . |
| 11 | ‘ And we all know what I think of big Paul . ’ |
| 12 | The eminent novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch was asked in an interview in 1982 " What do you think of other forms and media , such as television ? " and I could not agree more with her reply which was " People say that British television is the best in the world but there is so much violence and such a lot of it is so terrible . |
| 13 | Can you think of other discourse types which often avoid referring expressions , and , if so , what are the reasons for this ? |
| 14 | Moreover , my forays outdoors became adventures into loonyland : for instance , asking directions from a garage attendant : ‘ Lost , are you , Beattie ? 'Ere , boys — what do you think of young Melvyn , letting his mum out on the roads without a minder ? |
| 15 | What do you think of conservation bodies ? |
| 16 | She thinks of other people . |
| 17 | Have you thought of autologous bone marrow ? ’ |
| 18 | She thought of other happenings since she had arrived in Czechoslovakia , and concentrated her thoughts on Lubor — who had n't found her clinging enough . |
| 19 | She thought of cross-country runs at Pinehurst , when she and Gay and Flick had led the field . |
| 20 | They were Darwinian gradualists who thought of human progress in terms of ever-increasing rationality . |
| 21 | If you think of new ideas and details as you are writing , include them too . |
| 22 | IF you think of Vermont and music you think of White Christmas . |
| 23 | It 's quite strange because when you think of teenage mothers you think of Michelle in Eastenders having all those problems and the father running off and everything . |
| 24 | However there are some that definitely require you to think of new ways to do things . |
| 25 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 26 | One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought . |
| 27 | We did use black paper , but it looked terrible and attracted graffiti , so then we thought of fine art . |
| 28 | Naturally , when we think of unwritten possibilities , we mean those realizations which " could have been " purely in terms of the language : we do not presume to delve into the psychology of the author , or to tamper with the text itself . |
| 29 | I think that one of the great problems , and I 've made a number of studies of individual Puritans in the seventeenth century , is that we talk about Puritanism and we think of Victorian Nonconformity . |
| 30 | That is , if ( for the purposes of semantic or pragmatic interpretation ) we think of deictic expressions as anchored to specific points in the communicative event , then the unmarked anchorage points , constituting the deictic centre , are typically assumed to be as follows : ( i ) the central person is the speaker , ( ii ) the central time is the time at which the speaker produces the utterance , ( iii ) the central place is the speaker 's location at utterance time or CT , ( iv ) the discourse centre is the point which the speaker is currently at in the production of his utterance , and ( v ) the social centre is the speaker 's social status and rank , to which the status or rank of addressees or referents is relative . |