Example sentences of "think [prep] several " in BNC.
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1 | But I can think of several reasons to resent their existence . |
2 | ‘ I can think of several women who did excellent post-maternity work . |
3 | ‘ Oh I could think of several reasons . ’ |
4 | You can probably think of several others , and mine is no means a definitive list . |
5 | Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov . |
6 | ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility . |
7 | Of course , there is a place for one or two chief executives , but I can think of several names , which I will not mention , of former Labour and Conservative council leaders who could make an enormous contribution . |
8 | I can think of several . |
9 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
10 | As he walked slowly home , Van Cheele thought about several things which had happened in and around the village recently . |
11 | Then he thought for several more hours . |
12 | She thought for several moments , then twisted his words in an effort to pin him down to something definite . |
13 | I thought of several things to say to him , but nothing sounded right . |
14 | He had to think for several seconds before he came out with , " Moi , je suis Italien . " |
15 | I think of several people . |
16 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |