Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | To help them think in advance about the issues , members undertook pre-work relating to the quality Improvement Process and its state of progress in their domain . |
| 2 | A pony will often find a ‘ fifth leg ’ when a big horse will fall flat on his nose , and although you do n't see any small ponies at the top in eventing , many riders like a bit of pony blood in their eventers ‘ to help them think more quickly ’ . |
| 3 | They will be able to send you some materials to give you a plan for getting started and to help you think through the two important questions : |
| 4 | The following questionnaire is designed to help you think clearly about the way you behave . |
| 5 | Finlayson closed his eyes to help him think . |
| 6 | Brain-storming is simply one of a number of " thinking techniques ' developed and popularized over recent decades to help us think more efficiently and creatively . |
| 7 | And it 's always a good idea to let them think you 've got better enchantments in your armoury than you actually have , if you take my meaning , even if you have n't got any enchantments at all . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's nearly as clever to let people think you do n't care as it is to let them think you 're silly . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll have to let me think , ’ said Tim . |
| 10 | Well that 's all I have to do I think . |
| 11 | Well , relative to the size of the job we have to do I think the answer is yes . |
| 12 | ‘ I am bitterly disappointed , for Aunt Emily says that it would not be at all proper for me to come to Trelorne and that I was very wrong to let you think that I might . |
| 13 | It does n't do any good to let him think he can overrule me either — well , he ca n't really , because I 'm Chief Druid after all . |
| 14 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 15 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 16 | It deliberately switched off its mind to me , to make me think that it had died . ’ |
| 17 | Yet when I first came , you tried to make me think your position here was untenable . |
| 18 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 19 | I smiled and her eyes smiled back enough to make me think the ice could just possibly melt there under the right circumstances . |
| 20 | I heard enough to make me think it worth my while to talk it over . |
| 21 | He occasionally drops a phrase to provoke a smile from the soft cheeks of ladies and gentlemen , and to make them think that they could say the thing better … |
| 22 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 23 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 24 | And it would ta , take someone like that just to make them think , yeah , well , you know what is so funny in get rid of this sort of stigma about boys being immature . |
| 25 | He knew the way to make people do what you wanted was to make them think it was their idea . |
| 26 | The trick is to make them think you 're buying them from Harrods , not Woolworth 's at sale time . ) |
| 27 | And it 's really to make people to attract peoples ' attention and to make them think about these issues . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're trying to make them think you 've been coming in to see me ? |
| 29 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 30 | To make them think twice . |