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 . |