Example sentences of "could think of " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Only a human being could think of anything as boring as that , ’ Emily said , smiling for the first time . |
| 32 | Soaked , confused and miserable , Mungo could think of nothing to say either . |
| 33 | He could think of nowhere he would rather be than at home , with people he knew and trusted , in a place without secrets . |
| 34 | Because he could think of nothing to say to her in reply , Gaily bought her a drink and left . |
| 35 | Gaily could think of no other remark . |
| 36 | Now she was the only person near enough Zambia could think of who could help hir . |
| 37 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
| 38 | Christianity enormously expanded the perspectives in which rulers could think of themselves , and these perspectives in turn became an engine of expanded royal government . |
| 39 | It had everything we could think of — lights , PA system , lectern and its own generator . |
| 40 | I punished him in every way I could think of — I married him to Minnie , gave him children , got him bitten by a vampire so that he grew fangs and finally had him turned into a rat by a wicked witch , a great improvement . |
| 41 | The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her and she could think of nothing else the whole winter . |
| 42 | Writing to Ellen , never her most sympathetic correspondent , was dreary work since all she could think of were frantic pleas to tell her of Oreste and she grew tired of begging long before she reached the end of the first sheet . |
| 43 | His usually placid , cheerful features were contorted with rage and she stood dumb while he poured out a stream of abuse upon Ellen and upon her and upon the Wilson family and upon the English and upon everyone and everything he could think of . |
| 44 | It would not be eaten — she had not the faintest illusion of that — but it would be looked on and smiled over and would bring back happy memories and it was all she could think of to signify her reborn affection . |
| 45 | She could think of no reply to the friendly overture , so Mother Bombie supplied her own : |
| 46 | Sam could think of a number of answers . |
| 47 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |
| 48 | The celebrated cases make the point that in spite of its ill-deserved reputation , Glasgow is actually more peaceful than a lot of other places I could think of … unless , of course , you were an innocent wee serving lassie in 1862 . |
| 49 | There was no way they could think of escaping now . |
| 50 | He tried everything he could think of to tempt the Bookman into showing himself . |
| 51 | Do you think that I would ask you to risk your reputation , if I could think of another way ? ’ |
| 52 | For a start , he could think of precious few men who would consort with prostitutes . |
| 53 | But he could think of no other way to tackle the problem . |
| 54 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 55 | If I could think of something useful to say I 'd say it . |
| 56 | Roland could think of no intelligent comments about rabbits , but Maud replied with statistics about Fenland warrens and a description of an old warrener 's tower on the Norfolk Baileys ' estate . |
| 57 | Nana could make a chocolate drink with cocoa beans and goat 's milk , and that was the only thing Martha could think of that was coloured like her . |
| 58 | All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched . |
| 59 | It was simply that he could think of no other way of prolonging her absence from him indefinitely . |
| 60 | But as his eyes travelled across to Elinor 's crowd , with their frizzy haloes of hair , their flowered dresses and carefully arranged profiles , he realized that there was nothing he could think of to say that would persuade them he was anything other than a boring little man . |