Example sentences of "and [adv] think " in BNC.

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1 Lazy Lawrence is a powerful spirit and widely thought to inflict ‘ crampe and crookeing and fault in their footing ’ upon wrongdoers , as this local saying testifies :
2 What there is a shortage of is good propositions which are realistically priced and properly thought through and presented .
3 It is because a social group 's stock of commonsensical beliefs contains contrary elements that argument , and thereby thought , is possible .
4 The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste .
5 Every Member I interviewed believed that television had increased public interest in Parliament and most thought it had improved public understanding of how the Commons works , It is even more important , however , that the House should be televised so that the public can follow the actual matters being debated in Parliament .
6 Patients were not embarrassed in seeing their doctor and most thought they were treated sympathetically .
7 He settled into the new way of life and rarely thought about Manchester , a place where he could not recollect the sun ever shining .
8 She needed to keep up her continuity of male companionship , and humbly thought she had nothing to offer but sex . )
9 I put another case in front of it , an empty one , and suddenly thought of an old story in a childhood book .
10 And so thought it would be amusing for us to meet before you came up here ?
11 Many of the latecomers , especially as the afternoon wore on , were furious to find the doors locked , not having heard of the noon closure and so thinking they had all day .
12 He observed St-Germain-des Pres from a little distance , was distressed by its tendency towards abstraction , took his new mistress Francoise Gilot from its fringes , and so thought to teach a lesson in painting to both her and her contemporaries .
13 They might , as we have suggested , feel confident of some ability between their own world of ideas and the Greeks ' , and so think themselves particularly well equipped to explore this alternative .
14 Er and so think er not we should not just have a policy for the we should put some money towards it as well .
15 On such whimsical criteria , and perhaps thinking them a good omen , did we decide our preference .
16 You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two .
17 She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all …
18 Many inexperienced pilots do not even consider what the situation is going to be and only think about what is happening at that moment .
19 He says he accepted the job in five minutes and only thought about it afterwards .
20 He says he has high hopes for unity finally and apparently thinks the industry might start coming together at the Unix International members meeting in New Orleans February 11–12 where some 100 companies and 200 people will assemble .
21 Jasper , on the other hand , would sit there stiffly , with his ears pricked up , eyeing Dawn and apparently thinking , ‘ Well , shall I or shall I not ? ’
22 I was woken from this stupor by the roar of an engine , and naturally thought some bloodthirsty Jerry had come to finish me off .
23 The 1984 village case study revealed that the Bangladeshi mothers ( some of whom had already been taught about the lobon-gur solution ) recognised four different types of diarrhoea and generally thought only one of these types to be an indication for the use of the lobon-gur mixture .
24 This is caused by poor basic training and not thinking ahead .
25 And yet he was , he said , preoccupied with Keynes and not thinking about sex at all .
26 When I 'm drinking a glass of water , I 'm drinking a glass of water and not thinking about five other things at the same time .
27 ‘ Must you ? ’ she said , still half asleep and not thinking of anything at all except David .
28 You know , I mean I ca n't imagine anybody coming round and not thinking it 's lovely cos you 've got it spot on !
29 I said yes thinking Mozart would be lovely , and not thinking any more of it until he stuck to me like a limpet
30 Tonight , she would rest and not think about her future until the morning .
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