Example sentences of "to think [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monotonous motion of his arm released his mind to think about the discovery in the shed . |
| 2 | The nuns led them through a series of exercises which encouraged them to think about the good in themselves , and to know that God , in His love for them , has forgiven their sins . |
| 3 | To arbitrate and try to think about the situation in terms of all the agencies present . |
| 4 | After it had been selected , I re-entered and told the audience to think about the article in question . |
| 5 | One has only to think of the way in which the Shah of Persia reinforced his position by claiming direct descent from the Achaemenids of the third century BC , to give depth to a genealogy that in fact started with his father — a Cossack officer — assuming the throne in 1920 when the previous dynasty collapsed ( see Avery , 1965 ) ; or the use in Britain of the ‘ historical ’ roots of the Royal Family to support such current political structures as the House of Lords . |
| 6 | It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else . |
| 7 | Human economic activity forces us to think of the environment in the same terms . ’ |
| 8 | You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room . |
| 9 | Guy leaned back against the hut door , dragging the cold night air into his lungs , and tried not to think of the anguish in Isabel 's white face , of the tears drowning her luminous grey eyes . |