Example sentences of "think for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You would n't think for a dainty little thing would you ?
2 So a new calliper how much do you think for a new calliper ?
3 Let us think for a few moments of the wonderful achievements of the human race — the towns that have been built , the works of art that have been produced — the books , plays , films , pictures , music … the progress that has been made in science and technology .
4 When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't .
5 It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this .
6 it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things .
7 Waking very cold and aching , Perdita saw little red flames flickering across the great blue arch of sky and thought for a terrified second that she was in the middle of a forest fire .
8 The big man thought for a few seconds , then laughed .
9 He looked very serious , and thought for a few seconds .
10 Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes .
11 ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise .
12 Alice returned to the second coat and her work of balancing on the trestles , and thought for the first time : I 'm silly .
13 God , thought Dalziel as he had frequently thought for the past twenty years , you 're the most miserable-looking bugger I ever saw .
14 Finlayson thought for a good long time , while he stared at Callaghan 's bright new buttons .
15 He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’
16 Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan .
17 Marilla thought for a long time .
18 She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range .
19 Finding she could n't push the pram up the slope , she thought for a few seconds and then tried to pull it up .
20 Major Tzann thought for a few seconds .
21 Howard thought for a few moments and then said , ‘ I think I know what time the next plane leaves for London . ’
22 ’ He thought for a few moments .
23 The artist thought for a few moments .
24 Aggie thought for a few seconds , ‘ You could come and stay with me . ’
25 John thought for a few seconds ,
26 Julia thought for a little while and then produced one word :
27 Holmes thought for a little while .
28 Just like a shark , she thought for the second time that night , and the image did n't entirely displease her .
29 Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time .
30 ‘ How lovely she is , ’ he thought for the thousandth time , as he looked at her fondly .
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