Example sentences of "think [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy .
2 But what , she wondered , did the Colonel think about during the periods of his wife 's persistent chattering ?
3 What did you think about about the the Parliamentary Labour Party at the time ?
4 ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games .
5 You know , there 's a lot of symbolism that really has been lost , people do n't think about in the wedding service , but is underlying , you know , until fa fairly recently a lot of people promised to obey , erm , look at Prince Andrew and that when he got married , you know , erm , the Duchess of York actually promised to obey him
6 The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase .
7 Claire Rayner and Jeni Barnett are the only two I can think of at the moment .
8 Well , that 's all I can think of at the moment .
9 The the other advantages I can think of at the moment for erm getting company to say yes it the obvious connections to company .
10 There could be no answer to that , none that I could think of at the time .
11 No they do n't , but it was the only accent I could think of at the time .
12 Richie was the only person he could think of with the necessary clout .
13 That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast .
14 This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular .
15 A typical example would be : How many uses can you think of for a brick ( or a paper clip ) ?
16 These are the limestone arres , and as unwelcoming a site as you could think of for a new resort .
17 What we might think of as a process of deliberation and choice about our desires is , for him , simply the interplay and jostling of desires amongst themselves ; and what we call ‘ will ’ is simply the desire that wins .
18 While neither a saint nor a psychopath , he clearly had some of the characteristics of both — ; chiefly what Lydia could only think of as a sort of selfless solipsism .
19 There are three sources of constraint : the first two we might call ‘ demand ’ constraints and the third we can think of as a ‘ supply ’ constraint .
20 ‘ And I am Lio ! rt Dragonlord , ’ said the hanging man , pronouncing the word with the harsh click in the back of the throat that Rincewind could only think of as a kind of integral punctuation .
21 This transition can be accomplished in 29 branchings , which we may naively think of as a stately walk of 29 steps across genetic space .
22 If anyone is interested in forming a group to go out and get petitions signed , or anything else we can think of as a group , please will they write to me as soon as possible .
23 A ministry that we do n't often think of as a ministry .
24 She was shocked to the very roots of her being by what she could only think of as an outrage ; a violation of her person .
25 The igneous and metamorphic rocks form what one can think of as the bones of the landscape , covered by sedimentary sequences of varying depths ( muscles , internal organs ? ) , and a thin skin of Quaternary ( Ice-Age ) material and new soil .
26 Current you can think of as the amount of water that actually gets through , the
27 It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’
28 Quite often the limitations of its '50s design brought with it annoying problems you would n't think of in a more modern-thinking car .
29 When Cassio has been attacked by Iago , apparently murdered , Othello lauds his master 's example : The murder scene , with its marvellously wrought language , a ceremony that Othello thinks of as a sacrifice , is the most deluded , most fictitious scene in Shakespeare — not a word in it that Othello says is true .
30 From the physical point of view , the human child is at its most vulnerable during and just after birth , and it remains ‘ at risk ’ , in the actuarial sense , throughout early childhood , particularly during what our society thinks of as the pre-school years .
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