Example sentences of "[pers pn] think of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
2 | I thought of all the multitudes who had lain upon its hard , steel bed staring upwards , their fears and hopes filling the room , waiting only for its pronouncements when can easily turn into a foe . |
3 | Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed . |
4 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
5 | I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool . |
6 | I remembered the honesty of Masquerade in a force five wind , and then I thought of all the good days to come ; days of Ellen and me and Masquerade in far seas , and I must have smiled , for Robin-Anne nodded approval of whatever silent answer I was framing to her question . |
7 | I thought of all the people called Gray that I knew , not many really for such a common name . |
8 | I thought of all the possibilities , and it seemed to me it was there all the time , but I had n't seen it . |
9 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
10 | ‘ I think of all the boys that came after , all the ones that went before too and were subjected to Gilly 's approach to education . ’ |
11 | It sickens me every time I think of all the money Caliban has won ; and of all the other people like him who win money . |
12 | It is not only me , I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war . |
13 | I think of all the people I know , and I ca n't remember how any of them behave . |
14 | ‘ When I think of all the hours you spend trying to help people with their problems … ’ |
15 | When I think of all the social problems there are I mean Creggan has everything . |
16 | ‘ When I think of all the time they 've wasted , trying to prove me guilty while the real killer goes free … ’ |
17 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
18 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
19 | I mean when I think of all the money that was poured into my education and nobody ever mentioned the kind of decisions one would have to make in the future and the problems you would have in trying to make use both of your education and have children and have the happy family life that our society encourages you to have and that we all perhaps want . |
20 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
21 | How could she think of such a thing ? |
22 | For a moment he wondered about her , what she thought of all the ribbing and chipping that she received almost every day in this place . |
23 | The songs came back to her now , and she thought of all the things she had n't had : a junior prom , dates , valentines , flowers . |
24 | She thought of all the wicked things he had done and her anger grew and grew like a dark flower opening inside her . |
25 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
26 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
27 | She thought of all the rats scurrying through the streets , hustling for a crust . |
28 | She thought of all the changes the news would make in her life as she walked to Egremont Street and wondered how soon her brothers and friends and dancing partners would be called up . |
29 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
30 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |