Example sentences of "think [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Then when it " just happens " , spontaneously and romantically , they and their girlfriends hope they do n't get pregnant , or they do n't think about it at all . |
2 | It 's not something just to be pushed to one side , and , ‘ Oh , yes , he 's coming at eleven o'clock , so I 'll think about it at five to eleven . ’ |
3 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
4 | Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds . |
5 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
6 | ‘ Now I simply do n't think of you at all . ’ |
7 | — or does not think of you at all . |
8 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
9 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
10 | have you thought about it at all ? |
11 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
12 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
13 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
14 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
15 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |
16 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
17 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
18 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
19 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
20 | I had n't much more time to think about him at that moment , because a large black car swept past the open windows with Laura at the wheel . |
21 | But mostly I try not to think about him at all . |
22 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
23 | On the other hand , I did n't have to think about it at all to decide it was flamboyant , asinine pretentiousness . |
24 | In fact I refuse to think about it at all . ’ |
25 | If they think about it at all , they think of a mythical golden age when children at school were naturally obedient , and , if not , were forced to learn and to remember what they were told . |
26 | That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’ |
27 | Malthus assumed that the ‘ passion between the sexes ’ was constant ; modern demographers seldom think of it at all in academic terms , leaving it to medicine and biology ( Austin and Short 1980 , Parkes 1976 ) . |
28 | Irene Pitt had her lunch with Christopher , saw that he was deeply preoccupied with his election chances , not thinking about her at all , and wondered if she was going to enjoy being married to a politician . |
29 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
30 | ‘ It was lovely that Cuan was thinking of us at that time , ’ said Mrs Over . |