Example sentences of "and think [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However they should not be a worry for a pilot who is well trained , and who keeps in practice and thinks about the conditions before each flight . |
| 2 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
| 3 | Do you ever stop and think about the way you breathe ? |
| 4 | You put yourself into cold storage for two years as far as any kind of political practice goes and just sit and think — and do n't forget you 'll get paid £5000 a year to sit and think about the purity of the struggle we 're all fighting back here . ’ |
| 5 | My Group was anxious that all teachers should understand and think about the ideological assumptions implied by their approach to the teaching of English , for this is one way to overcome dogmatism . |
| 6 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 7 | ‘ The gang should also stop and think about the danger they could be in . |
| 8 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 9 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 10 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 11 | Coun Pearson called for a return to the original idea of a chapel of remembrance , where people could sit quietly and think of the ones they have lost . |
| 12 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 13 | He thought of her , and thought at the same time of Oxford ; and remembered , with sudden guilt , the letter from his mother , which he had not yet read . |
| 14 | Alice returned to the second coat and her work of balancing on the trestles , and thought for the first time : I 'm silly . |
| 15 | In short , Winckelmann epitomizes an intimate relationship between classical scholarship on the one hand and living culture and thought on the other.And in this he was renewing a tradition which had once existed ( albeit primarily outside Germany ) : the Renaissance tradition , which had weakened during the intervening centuries , and which was to lapse again almost beyond recall within the hundred years after his death . |
| 16 | The second report is a carefully written and elaborate record of everything that you did and thought during the preparation of the report . |
| 17 | Peter speculated about the rest of the congregation and thought about the future . |
| 18 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 19 | While the strangers slept , Babushka baked some bread and thought about the men . |
| 20 | Lucy sat , her hand over her eyes , and thought about the way her life was heading . |
| 21 | After this outburst Angel went to bed early and thought about the situation . |
| 22 | Only when you have made your plans , decided on your work sequence , bought your appliances and thought about the style of room you would like to create , can you focus on the treatment of the rest : the framework of walls , floor , window and ceiling as well as the sort of tiles , splashback and worktop you would like . |
| 23 | Charlie sat in the carriage of a train bound for Edinburgh and thought about the actions he had taken during the past four days . |
| 24 | I was climbing up all these stairs to the office and thought by the time I get to her , I 'll be too puffed to dance properly . |
| 25 | The founder of Serbian expressionism was one of the few artists who worked and thought alongside the European art movements of the beginning of the century . |
| 26 | She sat and thought about the events of the day . |
| 27 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 28 | With that goes a rejection of the corrupted language and thought of the old politics . |
| 29 | I wondered whether the flak was accurate and thought of the people fifteen thousand feet above us in Wellingtons , Stirlings and Hampdens , eating chocolate and plotting their track or weaving desperately and praying like tiny panic-stricken children . |
| 30 | Wordsworth returned to his former trust in France , and thought of the British Tory government as ‘ vermin' ( Prelude 1805 , x , 655 ) ; but when the French began to take away the liberty of other countries , Wordsworth saw that there was little to choose between the French and any other conquering nation ( Prelude 1805 , x , 792 ff ) . |