Example sentences of "to think of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been thinking of you — — far more ’ , he wrote , ‘ than I had ever expected to think of a young man — but then I 've got to know you so well , I really miss you very much . ’ |
| 2 | What we have to do is to think of a personal God without thinking of a ‘ body ’ of God . |
| 3 | Instead of calling their Guider something quite different from Brown Owl when invited to think of a new name for her , the Pack had decided to change her name simply from Brown Owl to Brownie Owl . ’ |
| 4 | It was only a matter of time before my more traditional sort of jazz became popular again and I 'd have to think of a new image . |
| 5 | This much is established in the play , but , unable to think of a suitable ending , Perry anticipates the events to come by aborting the drama prematurely with a radio cut written into the script . |
| 6 | ‘ And you 're Steve , ’ I said , trying to think of a suitable Steve to name him after . |
| 7 | He was unable to think of a suitable gesture . |
| 8 | Rather taken aback , and with no time to think of a suitable reply , I said , ‘ Well , I suppose at your age I can only stand back and hope you do n't make too many mistakes . ’ |
| 9 | She had seen the technique used before — do n't give the victim a chance to think of a convincing lie . |
| 10 | She had also been taught , when in difficulty , to think of a good life to imitate . |
| 11 | It was difficult to think of a good reason at a moment like this . |
| 12 | I hunched down in my pouch-seat , trying hard to think of a good argument against heading for Fraxilly . |
| 13 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 14 | However , it is more valuable to think of a global school development plan which brings together all central and support activities . |
| 15 | To think of any of one 's conscious episodes in the moment after it has happened , is to think of a certain duality , one which has nothing to do with dualistic doctrines of mind and body . |
| 16 | In your own minds , now , I want you to think of a famous building or a famous site or perhaps a famous street or avenue yes a a statue would be fine , erm or something that 's famous , like an animal perhaps , or a park erm or a zoo , although that might be a bit difficult . |
| 17 | If someone tells you not to think of a white bear , what happens ? |
| 18 | I have argued above that the absence of an international standard such as is provided for cinema by Hollywood makes it difficult to think of a classical system for television . |
| 19 | Er you 've got , also down here , experimental the person who experiments if you like with different cultures , trying to think of a different way , who 's interested in religions . |
| 20 | Dalgliesh was unable to think of a single excuse why it should n't be . |
| 21 | One abstract way of thinking about this is to think of a pragmatic theory as a " black box " ( an as yet unexplicated mechanism ) , and to ask : what should be the input to such a theory , and what should be the output ( or : what is the theory meant to predict , given what particular information ) ? |
| 22 | Rupert hesitated , unwilling to admit that anthropologists did no good , yet for the moment unable to think of a positive example that would convince her . |
| 23 | Erm one problem I think is that you can you tend to look at letters I think sort of one or two letters together erm instead of trying to think of a whole word . |
| 24 | It would be difficult to think of a linguistic topic which is not covered in some form , although I will admit to a passing irritation with the way in which my browsing ( and the book is eminently browsable ) was constantly interrupted by a brief listing of some exotic language-family . |
| 25 | Thus , in general , it seems that backward projection on to historical states of language has tended to be based on present-day standard English and SBE , rather than other dialects , and as in the examples cited from Dobson ( below ) there has been a tendency to think of a phonemic set ( such as short /a/ ) as being invariant or nearly invariant within itself . |
| 26 | ’ Melissa broke off , trying to think of a tactful way of stating the brutal , unpalatable truth . |
| 27 | When I am asked to think of a happy London , I think of this place in July and of my lazy pondmates : Kelly and Simone and Jo , the acidhouse DJ . |
| 28 | It was like Jean to think of a happy family reason for a slight disappearance . |
| 29 | Now it is clear that we do sometimes have alternative ways of determining guilt and innocence to our own satisfaction and it therefore makes sense to think of a fair trial as a trial designed to produce the correct verdict where correctness is assessable by some other objective standards , but in many cases this is not so and in practice the correct verdict is simply the one which is reached after a fair trial . |
| 30 | ‘ That should give you time to think of a plausible excuse ! ’ she said bitterly . |