Example sentences of "he think of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poignant melody made him think of soft feminine sighs , warm arms and whispered words of love in the dark of night . |
| 2 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 3 | He wished he had n't spotted it as it made him think of this morning and going round the house in Hill View Road , and the idea his Mum and Dad had about moving . |
| 4 | It appalled him to think of living as Tina did , with one lover after another , apparently not even selectively , or as Jed , long separated from his wife and child , consoled by the society of a bird . |
| 5 | What did he think of those who thought he was passed it . |
| 6 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 7 | He thinks of that great opening shot in Le Métro and he realizes that her lips are moving in exactly the same way , her face pained as he does his practised best . |
| 8 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 9 | He thinks of wicked as being good , he does n't , cause Mandy says wicked . |
| 10 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 11 | Here we see our Lord suffering the most terrible agony , and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and and torment , he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and his mercy to him . |
| 12 | He thinks of previous reviews , of the drums beating , of the waving standards , of his generals covered with gold lace and saluting him with their swords , and of his guard shouting , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 13 | Now why had he thought of that ? |
| 14 | Darn it , why had n't he thought of that himself ? |
| 15 | As he threw it into the sea , watching the water swallow up his past month 's work , he thought of all the walking he was soon to do . |
| 16 | When her father was being stern with her , and she hid her face from the camera in the pillow on the morning before her wedding , he thought of all the arguments that he would have used to persuade her to get up and face the situation . |
| 17 | He thought of all those white-faced passengers , panic-stricken as they peered out of their windows when they heard the engines spooling up again , wheels rumbling as they were noisily retracted , finally followed by the sharp upward tilt as the plane climbed out from the airport at full power . |
| 18 | But Neil 's world lay in ruins about him , as he thought of all the lies which McAllister had told him , and listening to Havvie began to wonder where the truth lay . |
| 19 | Asik became angry as he thought of all the people in his village who could have been saved by the fruit in the lorry which had just passed him , throwing up bucketfuls of dust into his face . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm glad he thought of that . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't think he thought of that ! |
| 22 | He thought of that remark now , as he paused outside the house . |
| 23 | Whenever he thought of that first blind delicious sensation , as he had a hundred times that morning , he had to close his eyes . |
| 24 | I suppose he thought of that as well as of everything else . |
| 25 | He thought of that too . |
| 26 | His voice dripped sarcasm , telling her plainly what he thought of that . |
| 27 | He thought of other weapons , and their deployment . |
| 28 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 29 | I then asked John whether in recent years America was producing good literature , and what he thought of popular authors such as James Michener . |
| 30 | He thought of those legs gripping him , firm and yet caressing , sensual extensions of the stately pleasure-dome , sounds of silkily swishing physical delight heard in a mingled measure . |