Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessary to try to change your mental characteristics directly , to somehow think yourself better controlled . |
| 2 | I wanted to talk to you about the things that er you 've got from the meetings and to just think about the pricing issues . |
| 3 | So I 've got all ready , for me AIDS cos I used to just think oh I do n't really , I could just go and get some leaflets on ban on |
| 4 | Astronomers tend to always think the probability is high because they think there are so many sites on which life could develop , but the biologists take completely the opposite view , that there are so many evolutionary pathways that lead to biological dead ends , that this outweighs the number of sites on which life could develop . |
| 5 | For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert . |
| 6 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 7 | I think the C E C need to carefully think out er , the way they wan na go forward . |
| 8 | Er , we need to also think about erm , er , B types , because B types may not be being assertive , and I shall talk about assertive behaviour in a few moments . |
| 9 | ‘ To be honest , I could n't even say when I 'm going to be back but I 've got to realistically think I wo n't make it for the European Cup . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |
| 11 | I would , I would like to really think that . |
| 12 | But on the other hand say you 're a hundred and you 're working more with adapters they 're going to really think you 're a strong innovator . |
| 13 | Right , so we need to really think about all this from scratch do n't you , mm , pity the others are n't here actually . |
| 14 | Finding things the reverse , at first I had to consciously think switch down for slow down . |
| 15 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've now got to see if people like it enough for us to want to even think about building something like it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all so ridiculous that we 're not going to even think about it any more , ’ she said firmly , hiding her fears . |
| 18 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
| 19 | South Africa has such a congested international itinerary over the next few season that there is going to be little opportunity for this country 's top players to even think in terms of county contracts . |
| 20 | Why did he have to even think ! |
| 21 | ‘ It gives me the willies to even think about the rent , ’ Dustin averred . |
| 22 | Is your journey really necessary ? the posters demanded accusingly , making it downright unpatriotic for a civilian to even think of occupying a seat on a passenger train . |
| 23 | ‘ I am too exhausted to even think about a speech now , ’ Seb said , after the delivery . |
| 24 | I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’ |
| 25 | He slept little — two , three hours at most a night — but just now there was too much to do to even think of sleep . |
| 26 | Demi-gods of the elements , immense and immortal , too cool too to even think of mentioning , for fear of spontaneously combusting and disappearing in a cloud of unworthy , wretched smoke . |
| 27 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |
| 28 | ‘ You are everything I want and need , you fulfil my every fantasy , and I do n't want to even think of life without you . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 30 | Too tired to even think about it now , she said firmly , ‘ Goodnight , Phena , I 'll see you tomorrow , I expect . |