Example sentences of "i think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's the kind of place best avoided after dark ; it makes me think of poor Moley , and Ratty 's warning , and that 's why I call it the Wild Wood . |
2 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
3 | And then you can enter with cos I thought about sticking everybody into pairs |
4 | I thought of other things ; a fast hockey-match , an adventure story , the problems in a game of chess , a field of snowdrops and crocus in springtime , the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven and as many other happy subjects as I could conjure up . |
5 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
6 | In fact , I thought of interior designing , but you really need the right connections for that . ’ |
7 | I thought of hypothetical dangers — murderers , rapists ; and I have no doubt that such are abroad at night in the most unlikely of places at the most unlikely of times . |
8 | I thought of Biblical characters dressed in white flowing robes walking about the arid plains of Palestine or striding along the shores of the Sea of Galilee , making lepers leap into the air and hurl away their bells . |
9 | ‘ Then he wanted to know what I thought of young Hilary , ’ said Tom . |
10 | I thought of cold nights in Edinburgh and went everywhere with a relaxation I had rarely felt in Peru . |
11 | I thought of old Mrs Drury 's place , ’ said his secretary . |
12 | I thought with sudden exasperation that of course I was quiet . |
13 | By the way did anyone see the BBC 2 progy on FFL on Friday evening with Baddiel and Skinner , t was quite good I thought with ole Frank being the star — some interesting teams have been selected by the celebs as well . |
14 | but it is primary evidence and I think as primary evidence it has an extra value to the child 's records , and to the school 's records , over and beyond what |
15 | I am going to take a risk and say what I think about local radio on the basis of my knowledge , personal knowledge , and these gentlemen can as it , as it were sort of say it 's , it 's not like that for them or whatever . |
16 | Well I think at central level they have a letter do n't they , because from the reports I 've read local authorities exercise discretionary powers on the amount of Poll Tax to be charged on empty farm dwellings . |
17 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
18 | You were confusing it I think with shrill which is the word meaning high . |
19 | It is I think with great regret that we receive her resignation er but understand it . |
20 | erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago . |
21 | There was n't much laid on for you because er I think with new people you 've got ta get them into the spirit of doing something otherwise you sit here , all sitting down doing nothing ! |
22 | Cos I think with ivory , I think peaches and that look nice , but I think with white I like stronger colours . |
23 | It had without doubt been a day to remember and now whenever I look at my LNWR Boilerhouse Private plate , I think of poor unfortunate Fred Grisenthwaite and his tragic demise , and then recall the Railway Hotel bar room and the kind friends I met that night . |
24 | ‘ And we all know what I think of big Paul . ’ |
25 | Right , now we 've come I think to future events , erm , and we need to just try and list anything you know that 's coming up so , partly so that we 've actually got it down writing and we can look back on it . |
26 | But , but , but the whole social and cultural revolution evolution change has led I think to whole different schisms in the press which perhaps may have existed in some of the very one might almost say near communist publication like the |
27 | Frank was a retired boffin I think from British Aerospace . |
28 | Many will remember a street interview , I think by Scottish TV , in which an ordinary guy from Glasgow upbraided an old woman who was happy to see Thatcher back at Number 10 , with the all-too appropriate retort : ‘ Are you off your fucking head , Mrs ? ’ |
29 | Addition ( 1974 ) : Churning out the same stuff gives one that sick , ecky feeling in the head and I think in advanced cases the feeling is counter corrected in the head to one of numbed atrophy which is shown in those people who find it impossible to let thought in conversation run fluidly-fluently but must talk tensely about weather , colour of curtains , ailments , grouses . |
30 | Instead , I think in pictorial terms , and my aim in the book was to describe these mental images in words , with the help of familiar analogies and a few diagrams . |