Example sentences of "i think [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I think on an empty stomach ? ’ |
| 2 | What did I think of the prospect of an up-and-coming Minister of State called Norman Tebbit taking over the job ? |
| 3 | And she said to me what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back . |
| 4 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 5 | Because when he told me their name was I thought of a girl I used to know called Louise , but it is n't her |
| 6 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 7 | Nice work if you can get it , I thought as the tail lights of her Daimler ( or was it a Rolls ? ) disappeared into the night . |
| 8 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 9 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 10 | I thought about the early Scottish settlers of the Great Plains of America who endured terrible confusions because of the pure space they had never experienced before , except perhaps at sea . |
| 11 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 12 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 13 | I thought about the possibility but when my friends kept saying that I would be chosen I said that I thought the selectors would go for more experience . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I thought about the girl . |
| 15 | I thought about the district . |
| 16 | I thought about the gin , but that was tarred with the same brush . |
| 17 | When I was alone , I thought about the situation for a long time . |
| 18 | The next day I thought about the possible dangers on the island . |
| 19 | I thought about the options open to us . |
| 20 | I thought about the gutter outside , surely less obnoxious , less sacrilegious than in here . |
| 21 | On my way upstairs I thought about the famous pianist . |
| 22 | I thought about the drug . |
| 23 | I hoped so , and I was going to take the risk of finding out , but then Bill started talking about your once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel , and I thought about the fact that I 'm thirty-four and you 're twenty-two … ’ |
| 24 | But while I lay in my bed I thought about the accident . |
| 25 | I thought about the good-hearted couple inside its walls , and suddenly they seemed unimportant . |
| 26 | I thought about the police . |
| 27 | I thought about the real taxi-drivers in London who took parties of kids to the seaside on day trips each year and realized just what courage was . |
| 28 | I thought of no such possibility . |
| 29 | After coming across a hefty pile of best magazines prior to moving house earlier this year , I thought of a novel idea . |
| 30 | and I thought of a man who |