Example sentences of "[pers pn] think [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 2 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 3 | How can I think on an empty stomach ? ’ |
| 4 | I thought about the real taxi-drivers in London who took parties of kids to the seaside on day trips each year and realized just what courage was . |
| 5 | On my way upstairs I thought about the famous pianist . |
| 6 | The next day I thought about the possible dangers on the island . |
| 7 | I thought about the early Scottish settlers of the Great Plains of America who endured terrible confusions because of the pure space they had never experienced before , except perhaps at sea . |
| 8 | I thought about the good-hearted couple inside its walls , and suddenly they seemed unimportant . |
| 9 | I thought of no such possibility . |
| 10 | Yes , and I think I thought of a personal note that , because we do get some good , good appointments . |
| 11 | I thought of a nice name |
| 12 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
| 13 | After coming across a hefty pile of best magazines prior to moving house earlier this year , I thought of a novel idea . |
| 14 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 15 | I thought of the hundreds of others of us who said something like that once or twice a week . |
| 16 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 17 | And I thought of the other man , the mysterious watcher . |
| 18 | I thought of the two members of my crew who were dead and remembered that if any of us had deserved to die it was 1 , who was responsible for the disaster . |
| 19 | I thought of the far nurseries of the stars and how many days ' sail through the thin seas of hydrogen would take us beyond the space lamps and the burial grounds of the stars . |
| 20 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 21 | I thought of the fearful apprehension of the drug smuggler at the start of Midnight Express , his heart thumping , beads of guilty sweat on his lips . |
| 22 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 23 | I thought of the little touches of home there would be inside it : the hand-knitted pullover , the familiar English toothpaste , and the razor blades fastened together with elastic bands . |
| 24 | I thought of the empty coal yard , and how much it had not needed fire watching . |
| 25 | I thought of the vivid description with which Omar had burdened my memory . |
| 26 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 27 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 28 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 29 | I thought over the 90 minutes we were the better team . |
| 30 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |