Example sentences of "think [prep] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 2 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 3 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 4 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 5 | But then , she had never thought of him in a sisterly fashion . |
| 6 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 7 | She roused increasing desire in him ; he thought of her in the night , when his abstruse reflections on the day 's work were done . |
| 8 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 9 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 10 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 11 | But of course I think about him in a much different way as the years go by , and now I always smile when I think of him , because he made me laugh . |
| 12 | If we think about it in a creative way the blossoms will come . |
| 13 | you 're seventeen years old , if you 're old enough to have sex surely you 're old enough to you know , think about it in a mature way . |
| 14 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 15 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 16 | I think of you in the middle of all that black water , and I wish that you could be here with me . |
| 17 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 18 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 19 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 20 | He told her : ‘ It 's hard to think of you in an attractive way — you 're my friend 's wife . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't like to think of you in the cottage all by yourself . ’ |
| 22 | Darwin 's great innovation , for example , was not so much in finding out new flora and fauna during his voyage in the Beagle , but in thinking about them in a new and interesting fashion ; one of major consequence for our understanding of the nature of life on this planet and driving much of biological research explicating and developing the programme that Darwin 's theory initiated . |
| 23 | He said , I kept on thinking about you in the Hebrides . |
| 24 | The thing is , the thing is , the thing is I can see where everyone 's coming from , but it 's , it 's thinking about it in the future , |
| 25 | He 's still alive and yet I keep thinking of him in the past tense . |