Example sentences of "i think [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 2 | Now I think as a management team we need to think about what our strategy , our tactics are gon na be with regard to this . |
| 3 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 4 | I think as a Group Captain er explained y'know the the operational staff have really got to complete their study into what kind of tactical reconnaissance capability they want in the next century . |
| 5 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 6 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 7 | Well now it was largely , I think as a result of all that that three years later , now that was in nineteen twenty seven towards the latter of nineteen twenty seven , there was an opportunity for a detective to be appointed on a series of promotions . |
| 8 | and I think as a result of that it , it got disjointed and you , and you could n't follow it through . |
| 9 | Now , partly I think as a result of the numbers being fewer , but partly as a result of simply a greater awareness of need , I think , the schools are more caring places , they do try erm not to treat erm minority groups as just annoying variants on the majority group , they try to erm think through their problems and to help to meet them . |
| 10 | I think as a starting point |
| 11 | He was a employed by Dorrisons I think as a recovery bloke , you know |
| 12 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 13 | ‘ I do get depressed when I think about a career based in England . |
| 14 | I think about a fish with an eighty-five dollar executive toy in its mouth , and wonder what chance it has . |
| 15 | Oh , I think without a doubt they are . |
| 16 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 17 | Erm Mr Chairman on a point of information , the figures he has obtained on my figures are figures in a report issued by the director of social services and I think on a point of information he should acknowledge that they are the figures given by the officers . |
| 18 | But I really do n't mind when I think with a grin |
| 19 | Point taken , and I really feel sorry for Rocky at the moment , and hope he does n't leave , but I think with a player like Strachan at the club , who I believe is one of the best players in the Premier League at the moment , I think it would be foolish to leave him out . |
| 20 | And I 'll start backwards by saying what I 'd like to see , and that is that I think with a group of women coming from such a broad spectrum , that the work we 're going to do is never going to be the same and there are going to be large areas in which we may not be able to work together . |
| 21 | The season could have really slipped away I think with a defeat today , but erm still keeps the season a little bit bright . |
| 22 | I think of a lady who , now seventy , has attended her parish church in Edinburgh regularly year by year for forty years . |
| 23 | ‘ If you understand me so well you 'll know what I think of a man 's opinions . ’ |
| 24 | a ) I think of a number m and double it . |
| 25 | Their teacher had played a ‘ think of a number ’ game with them , using starters like : ‘ I think of a number . |
| 26 | I think of a time , not long after I met Crilly , in bed together , bound by tight covers . |
| 27 | Today I walk in the rain of this December afternoon , and I think of a mountain in Ceylon , Sinhala Kanda , the Mountain of Butterflies . |
| 28 | Ultimately the most memorable lines in this volume must be those penned by Bonnard to Matisse in January 1940 : ‘ When I think of you , I think of a mind cleansed of every old aesthetic convention , and it is that alone that permits a direct view of nature , the greatest joy that can befall a painter . |
| 29 | Now I think of an animal or a small child depositing its excreta in the wrong place so as to annoy its owner or parent . |
| 30 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |