Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poignant melody made him think of soft feminine sighs , warm arms and whispered words of love in the dark of night . |
| 2 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 3 | Now she had rudely stripped the corpse , and at no time during the action had she thought of that strip of white fabric … |
| 4 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 5 | Is similar but this time the unchanging part of the sentence is : What nationality do you think of when I say … ? |
| 6 | on Saturday and yet , that you have to be careful because they they have that I 've forgotten what her name was on on Wogan saying next time you go into a D I Y store and you see a mahogany toilet seat you know do n't boy buy it think of the forest . |
| 7 | Gombrich makes him think of the readiness with which the eye recognizes the features of the human face . |
| 8 | Whether the view of science led Peirce to look for a prior epistemology , or whether the desire for , or availability of , a prior epistemology led him to think of inquiry as he did , are questions I shall not pursue here . |
| 9 | Their peppy ensemble style and ambitious sound gets you thinking of the '70s boom era for Irish acts like The Bothy Band and Clannad , a time when there seemed to be masses of energy and ideas around . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | — the colour made me think of Nile mud — |
| 12 | What proverb do you think of when the key word is ship , time , apple , gold , friend , cooks ? |
| 13 | Prince 's music makes me think of Des Esseintes 's symphony of perfumes : exquisite , heady , overpowering , slightly nauseous . |
| 14 | ‘ The Commanding Officer wants us to think of this operation as a five furlong sprint . |
| 15 | Human economic activity forces us to think of the environment in the same terms . ’ |
| 16 | In order to tackle the problem let us think of short-term and long-term strategy . |
| 17 | ‘ Its quiet position makes you think of the country . |
| 18 | Hair against skin makes me think of glamour . |
| 19 | Harry 's accent makes him think of Vienna , and Vienna of E. H. Gombrich . |