Example sentences of "he think about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lepers made him think about the two who lurked in the cemetery of St Erconwald . |
| 2 | However , under the test derived from Caldwell , a person is not reckless if he thinks about the possible risk but decides that it does not obtain . |
| 3 | He thought about the long , long fall and then the flames , way below . |
| 4 | He thought about the long hours , the continuous toil , the mistakes , the mishaps , the inefficiency and the constant battle to build what he now saw before him . |
| 5 | And he thought about the endless mystery of objects . |
| 6 | As he drew to a halt in front of the boomgate he thought about the unacceptable quantities of low-level toxic waste being expelled daily into the atmosphere by avaricious chemical companies with scant regard for the safety and welfare of future generations . |
| 7 | And another , secondary spasm , when he thought about the first one , and realized that he was more appalled by vulgarity than he was by death . |
| 8 | He thought about the two girls in the shop doorway , surprised by the detailed impression they had left on his memory . |
| 9 | He thought about the soft ringing of the telephone bell , and the quiet whisper when he answered it . |
| 10 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |
| 11 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |
| 12 | At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him . |
| 13 | He smiled as he thought about the previous night . |