Example sentences of "we think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We thinks as 'ow Gareth Davis is drownded , sir , ’ he stated . |
| 2 | In none of these cases do we think of the owner as having parted with the right of ownership , though it may be that the contract between the parties creates rights in favour of the bailee which the owner can not use his right of ownership to override . |
| 3 | Another concerns the way in which selection acts , and in particular the target of selection : should we think of genes , or organisms , or populations , as being the entities which survive and reproduce , and upon which selection acts ? |
| 4 | Nor can we think of the Christian God as three persons in the way that we normally consider them to be , or we would surely have to conclude that it was a religion committed to polytheism . |
| 5 | I am sure that all these thrusting executives are not going to kick away this trusty old crutch and fob millions of women off with something unsuitable like , oh , say , ( what can we think of ? ) a string of old Irishmen singing maudlin songs for hours on end . ’ |
| 6 | What would we think of an advertising campaign for glue that concentrated in its aromatic qualities ? |
| 7 | When might we think of making a start ? " |
| 8 | No longer could we think of space and time as running on forever , unaffected by what happened in the universe . |
| 9 | How , therefore , should we think of the uses of language , in a way that could provide functional accounts of linguistic structure ? |
| 10 | Now can we think of a famous thing that sometimes appears in space ? |
| 11 | Do we think of the young poets with the young literary man ? |
| 12 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 13 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 14 | Touching : We all know when something is so hot that it burns our fingers or so sharp that it hurts to touch it — but how much do we think about the other things we touch ? |
| 15 | We all know how beneficial a moisturising routine can be for the skin but how often do we think about moisturising our hair ? |
| 16 | What do we think about this increased reporting ? |
| 17 | Mr Chairman could I ask a question because one of the things that I 've found missing this evening is specific things that people would like to see in this playhouse or perhaps specific things that we used to do and that find are missing and the last I have n't heard the word gallery mentioned from there much at all what do we think about the gallery ? |
| 18 | But ca n't we think about re-phrasing that so we get this idea of this joint statement , some sort of dialogue on |
| 19 | Secondly , what is the nature of the links between the manufacturing and the service sectors and , thirdly , how should we think about service sector output ? |
| 20 | How can we think about something colouring our that does n't have anything to do with our bodies , nothing to do with our history , nothing to do with a particular that we 've gone through , nothing to do with our soul faculties . |
| 21 | What other things might we think about the trainee ? |
| 22 | But I 've only seen one or two , can we think about photocopying them if it 's that thin , because by the time it gets to me sometimes it 's not legible . |
| 23 | down and saying right , we 're gon na buy a house , we 're gon na have kids , have we thought about how many kids we 're gon na have ? |
| 24 | Have we thought about whether we want to have kids at all ? |
| 25 | ‘ If we thought for one moment that the health of the public was at risk we 'd stop selling eggs . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ This is a much 'appier Christmas than we thought for . |
| 27 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 28 | ‘ We thought of that , sir , ’ said the inspector , a touch of melancholy in his voice . |
| 29 | It was a world unto itself , a working class community that existed quite separately from central London — which we thought of as Town , a totally different place . |
| 30 | Another person we thought of using as a front man was Midge Ure — who I went on to work with straight after The Pistols , in The Rich Kids . |