Example sentences of "think [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think for a man in my position with my experience of playing for England and on the continent , it does not show much regard . ’ |
| 2 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 3 | Now just think for a minute what that involves . |
| 4 | What is it , after all — just think for a minute — but a lot of reformist and flatulent ‘ left-wing ’ politics ! |
| 5 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 6 | Think for a minute . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Just think for a minute or two , ’ replied Gabriel hopefully . |
| 8 | And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ? |
| 9 | Well sport , traffic and travel , what 's on , think for a minute and plenty of opinion . |
| 10 | She asks me what I want , and I think for a bit . |
| 11 | There 's a telephone on the wall just by my table and I think for a bit about who I 'd like to phone . |
| 12 | Some people do n't stop when she asks them for money , but most people think for a bit and then dig in their pockets and give her summat . |
| 13 | I think for a bit what I should do . |
| 14 | I think for a bit about going to ask him how I get home but I do n't want to ask him in case he tells Mr Jackson . |
| 15 | When he 's gone , I think for a bit about Scotland . |
| 16 | No , but er , I do n't know people , it 's , it 's where people get their ideas from I think for a start , I know one time we used to sell oh a lot of erm spotlights and spotlamps , but only to people who were running discos , er now erm there are people who erm , well they , they want a , a couple in the lounge or something like that or , and er , and then of course they , there 's others who erm have them outside and light up their trees , at night . |
| 17 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 18 | I think for a lot of people , yes , it does , and though the pile of bricks obviously comes under Art with a capital A , crafts perhaps has not suffered quite as much , but I think there is the feeling amongst people that if they get a pot which is , shall we say non-function and wo n't pour , then is it art or craft ? |
| 19 | Just think for a moment of the way love is expressed in our giving . |
| 20 | Think for a moment what your house is worth today . |
| 21 | Just think for a moment . |
| 22 | If the shampoo-swilling celebrants of the City , or for that matter the likes of true-blue Sheppard , think for a moment that this man is likely to preside over unfettered mergers and acquisitions activity in the recalcitrant manner of his 12 predecessors since 1979 , they are hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 23 | Think for a moment of the difference in rhythmic pattern of these three songs . |
| 24 | To understand how the Steamatic works , think for a moment how dirt accumulates in the home . |
| 25 | I stop and think for a moment — shocked by my act of sadism . |
| 26 | ‘ Now before you go on presenting that blank face to me , think for a moment . |
| 27 | He saw it made her think for a moment , about him . |
| 28 | ‘ Try and think for a moment how many points of view there are in the world and how seldom people really understand each other . |
| 29 | ‘ How you suddenly remember something very vividly , ’ she said , ‘ and you think for a moment you 've really got hold of it . |
| 30 | Realizing what they represented , he added quickly , ‘ Not that I think for a moment that you … though , of course , ’ he floundered ever deeper , ‘ naturally , a man like , you , presentable and so forth , you probably have several … ’ |