Example sentences of "thinks [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's find out what Billy thinks about this , ’ Peter says . |
| 2 | She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it . |
| 3 | Whatever one thinks about this draft — and most lawyers who have studied it reckon it to be reasonably good , though it grants the president extensive powers that could be abused — the real issue has been how to get it adopted as Russia 's new constitution . |
| 4 | Whatever one thinks about this , it is certainly important that teachers and media producers should understand the various movements which have swept the library profession over recent decades and which see the librarian as educator rather than curator . |
| 5 | ( Thinks about this . ) |
| 6 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're going to go round to Mackenzie 's house and we 're going to ask his daughter what she thinks of this and we 're going to take pictures of him and we 're going to run our own front page with a picture of him and a bloody great headline which says RACIST ! ’ |
| 8 | Whatever one thinks of this judgment , it is not immediately obvious that it entails the rejection of the more specific claim that the state is the tool of the ruling class ; for the latter makes no explicit mention of a class 's consciousness of its interests , real or otherwise . |
| 9 | When asked what she thinks of this , Mrs Li laughs at the quaintness of the question . |
| 10 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 11 | She thinks of this step in terms of her ‘ defection ’ . |
| 12 | Somebody somewhere thinks of this as home , |
| 13 | Here we see our Lord suffering the most terrible agony , and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and and torment , he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and his mercy to him . |
| 14 | The ‘ authors of the ‘ neutralisation ’ idea ’ were accused of trying to decide the Afghan people 's fate for them ‘ without asking the government of that country what its position is and what it thinks on this score ’ . |
| 15 | The owner thinks at this stage that the batteries are okay , and starts to fear an expensive repair will be required . |