Example sentences of "think of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 2 | ‘ Church people were all too often narrow-minded , censorious , judgemental , intolerant , conventional … so the people for whom the world was too harsh would never think of turning to the Church … |
| 3 | Justifying the railway deficit in 1980 , for example , the chairman maintained that ‘ no one would think of talking of the deficit of the armed forces or of the fact that our state educational establishments show a deficit … ’ |
| 4 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 5 | Ever thought of going on the stage ? ’ |
| 6 | The girl spent a long time wondering whether she could pluck up courage to mention she 'd thought of going to the Swimming Gala if her mother really felt there was nothing she could do . |
| 7 | Oh , yes ? ' ) asking him whether he had ever thought of going round the world in 80 days . |
| 8 | Have you thought of applying for the police force ? ’ |
| 9 | Quiss felt his eyes start to smart in the fume-laden atmosphere , and as he peered through the grey , yellow and brown clouds of rising steam and smoke , thought of suggesting to the seneschal — if he ever found him — that he somehow persuade the scullions powering these airwheels that they should run rather than walk . |
| 10 | Why he or the Queen never thought of searching for the King is a mystery . ’ |
| 11 | She thought of looking at the doctor and indicating that he should interfere and stop it ; but she did not . |
| 12 | None of them thought of looking at the ricks . |
| 13 | At first he thought of resigning from the jury but then decided not to do so . |
| 14 | Waiting for him , she thought of getting into the big bed . |
| 15 | For a moment she thought of staggering to the window again to throw the soup out , but decided against it . |
| 16 | Then I thought of going across the road and throwing them in a skip — except that this would look very peculiar . |
| 17 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 18 | I seriously thought of crawling through the smoke to the door . |
| 19 | She thought of crawling beneath the vehicle 's metal-plated skirt , but one faceful of exhaust-heated mud was enough to discourage her . |
| 20 | Think of moving from the hips . |
| 21 | think of looking at the date , I knew the dates twenty fourth to the twenty seventh , I never , I never thought to look , but er |
| 22 | Think think of think of the brackets , right . |
| 23 | Think of lengthening between the navel and the upper part of the chest ( for depression ) . |
| 24 | The acquisition of a skeleton of calcium phosphate marked the point at which the fossil record began to contribute to the history of the group which , from our selfish viewpoint , we are conditioned to think of lying at the pinnacle of all evolutionary trees . |
| 25 | Or were you thinking of living above the shop ? ’ |
| 26 | West Country Living : Where you ca n't overlook the sea Anyone thinking of living in the region must take into account the waterside factor , says Marcus Palliser |
| 27 | Jobs will be found in Harrogate as elsewhere , and if we 're thinking of lumping in the B one office use and the other B uses in with the manufacturing , I think it 's fair to say that office uses are going to be far denser in terms of number of jobs per hectare than manufacturing , and therefore the allocations may not seem to be as great as otherwise might have been demanded . |
| 28 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 29 | So next time you 're thinking of reaching for the tablets or slumping miserably into despair , try having a good laugh instead . |
| 30 | That is a powerful argument for companies that are thinking of locating within the Community to come to Britain . |