Example sentences of "think [prep] these [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on the almost thirty-year-long era of the series , one does not automatically think of these essential mammerial features of the femme fatale when talking about Miss Sims . |
| 2 | At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns . |
| 3 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know what the Prince will think of these bare walls ’ , Ann East said to her room-mates . |
| 5 | As a rough-and-ready guide , one can think of these gestural usages as requiring at least a video-tape of the speech event if the proper interpretation is to be available from a recording . |
| 6 | I thought of these imaginary children without hope and quite without fondness . |
| 7 | We 've never had a big dog before , but we thought in these violent days it might protect us . ’ |
| 8 | We have found that by encouraging the students to think about these alternative information needs and the sources from which information can be derived , they are better able to see their accounting studies and the role of accounting in a wider context . |
| 9 | Think of these brilliant , warm-coloured , richly warbling birds , birds of paradise , dainty-footed , downy-clad , in the midst of a New England , a Canadian winter . |
| 10 | To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey . |
| 11 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |