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 | It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact , I thought of interior designing , but you really need the right connections for that . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |
| 10 | Such nice somebody and then I thought of ah I thought of that door yes all right let's |
| 11 | ‘ Then he wanted to know what I thought of young Hilary , ’ said Tom . |
| 12 | At first I thought of these ideas as jewels formed in a matrix of rock like a diamond or like a fragile vase fired in a kiln at Ching-Te-Chin — an emperor 's gift . |
| 13 | I thought of cold nights in Edinburgh and went everywhere with a relaxation I had rarely felt in Peru . |
| 14 | I thought of several things to say to him , but nothing sounded right . |
| 15 | Then I thought of another question — just as Mala asked it . |
| 16 | I thought of old Mrs Drury 's place , ’ said his secretary . |
| 17 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 18 | I thought of this hyla as the nymph Echo , a dryad , an invisible sweet voice . |
| 19 | That really made me smile when I thought of this rock'n'roll preamp being used in that situation . |
| 20 | I thought of this killer out on the empty , wild moor , and I felt more and more uncomfortable about my surroundings . |
| 21 | I think of one lady I am counselling as I write this . |
| 22 | Yes , I mean it 's generally true is n't it I think of all societies I ca n't think of any o of , of any exceptions that it normally is older males who have more resources . |
| 23 | I think of that girl on the bars |
| 24 | When I think of that occasion and what " Happy " had to say to me ( but not in private ) I blush . |
| 25 | She said then it goes down well it did do n't it ? oh when I think of that name . |
| 26 | I think of that week as the time before everything went mad . |
| 27 | Now I always glue , nail and use a solid backdrop whenever I can , I think of that episode as my ‘ belt and braces ’ lesson . |
| 28 | I think of these schemata as one from of the gardens of the mystics for images like flowers are transplanted to our mental gardens . |
| 29 | When I think of these schemata , I see bright images like the constellations of the heavens . |
| 30 | But now I think of these ideas as coming from a principle far more subtle . |