Example sentences of "to think [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best recommendation Gandalf can make is not to think about such things . |
| 2 | I ca n't even begin to think about such a question |
| 3 | Students reading philosophy should be able to think about such questions in a clearer and more disciplined manner than was possible to them before . |
| 4 | And as for him going up Back Clough Dale and mithering the folk up there , and all for nothing — well , I reckon you 've lost your brains , my lad , to think of such a thing . |
| 5 | Indeed , we only have to think of such people as Einstein , Picasso , Michelangelo , Goethe and George Bernard Shaw to realise that the brain is definitely capable of functioning — and functioning to great effect — well into one 's eighties or nineties . |
| 6 | You have only to think of such ordeals as driving tests or interviews . |
| 7 | It would never have occurred to Nathan Holland , the young man on whose arm she leant , to think of such a thing ; he had worked with Paul Arkwright in the publishing house which turned out many of the latter 's books on philosophy , and soon Paul had asked him , knowing his astonishing gift for languages , if he would translate some of them . |
| 8 | Still , it is essential to the story that such thoughts be entertained , as indeed Gandalf also says to Pippin : ‘ If you will meddle in the affairs of Wizards , you must be prepared to think of such things ’ ( 11 , 199 ) . |
| 9 | It is too soon to think of such things . |
| 10 | How typical of Iris to think of such a detail at a time like this . |
| 11 | It is now wrong to think of such areas as having many individual sites , because , as with the uplands , what we are seeing and recording are complete landscapes . |
| 12 | Why am I bothering even to think of such things ? |
| 13 | In an economic upturn that may change , of course , but I think they all get jobs of some sort , and I would have hoped that a chemistry degree , a good training in chemistry , would in fact also train people to think in such a way that they could apply it to a lot of other areas . |