Example sentences of "think of [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever one may think of such a position , it at least had the merit of being internally consistent . |
| 2 | You must never think of such a wicked thing again . |
| 3 | I am dumbfounded you should even think of such a thing with that lovely new cream gown hanging in your wardrobe and I should have been so happy to lend you my pearls . |
| 4 | How could she think of such a thing ? |
| 5 | What would the angels think of such a name ? |
| 6 | But to resist ecstasy : who would have thought of such a thing ? |
| 7 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 8 | I had not thought of such a thing . |
| 9 | Some may indeed dream of a united Germany : few believe it is politic to speak or even think of such a thing . |
| 10 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 11 | And as for him going up Back Clough Dale and mithering the folk up there , and all for nothing — well , I reckon you 've lost your brains , my lad , to think of such a thing . |
| 12 | It would never have occurred to Nathan Holland , the young man on whose arm she leant , to think of such a thing ; he had worked with Paul Arkwright in the publishing house which turned out many of the latter 's books on philosophy , and soon Paul had asked him , knowing his astonishing gift for languages , if he would translate some of them . |
| 13 | How typical of Iris to think of such a detail at a time like this . |