Example sentences of "i think [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 2 | ‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me think for a while . ’ |
| 4 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 5 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 6 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 7 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 8 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 9 | I know what 's coming , it 's always the same , please God make her stop , help me bear it , let me think of a poem to say as a distraction , make this all go away , Charlotte , Alexander , Mother , everything , only not father , not the farm — ; |
| 10 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 11 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 12 | This time of the building of the gardens of our minds makes me think of the Pacific Ocean where insects spin the sunlight and the salt water , and weave them into the most beautiful oases of the sea . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 15 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 16 | And she said to me what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back . |
| 17 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 18 | What did I think of the prospect of an up-and-coming Minister of State called Norman Tebbit taking over the job ? |
| 19 | Because when he told me their name was I thought of a girl I used to know called Louise , but it is n't her |
| 20 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 21 | Nice work if you can get it , I thought as the tail lights of her Daimler ( or was it a Rolls ? ) disappeared into the night . |
| 22 | I thought about the gin , but that was tarred with the same brush . |
| 23 | I thought about the options open to us . |
| 24 | I thought about the gutter outside , surely less obnoxious , less sacrilegious than in here . |
| 25 | I thought about the possibility but when my friends kept saying that I would be chosen I said that I thought the selectors would go for more experience . |
| 26 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 27 | I thought about the drug . |
| 28 | ‘ Then I thought about the girl . |
| 29 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 30 | I hoped so , and I was going to take the risk of finding out , but then Bill started talking about your once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel , and I thought about the fact that I 'm thirty-four and you 're twenty-two … ’ |