Example sentences of "i can think [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Twenty years later he could still recall the event : ‘ I can think about my loyal dog buried in the snow , ’ ( Death Of A Lady 's Man ) .
2 But I ca n't do it — all I can think about is Marie 's face .
3 She writes the words : arresting images ( lives that go in circles ‘ like a pigeon on a tyre ’ ) , moments of disturbing lucidity amid inscrutable dream-imagery ( ‘ give me what I want/ And all I can think about is losing it ’ ; ‘ why ca n't you do to my insights/What you do to my insides ? ’ ;
4 ‘ The only thing I can think about now is being hard up .
5 A bit more rest and I can think about some gentle training .
6 Now that is all behind me and all I can think about now is winning the 1991 world championship . ’
7 ‘ It 's all I can think about , and whether I could have said or done anything . ’
8 We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm .
9 The only thing I can think about
10 I can think of more upsetting things in life . ’
11 Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana .
12 By ‘ hardness ’ I mean a quality which is in poetry nearly always a virtue — I can think of no case where it is not .
13 Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault .
14 I 've no idea whether Europe is going to work , no one has , and I can think of huge historical reasons why it wo n't .
15 On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ .
16 I can think of very little more boring than lying on the floor and doing sit-ups and leg lifts every morning .
17 The two brothers were very close and no writer I can think of has such a hatred of death as Canetti .
18 But I can think of several reasons to resent their existence .
19 More than any other group I can think of , Microdisney are victims of rock 's over-privileging of the text .
20 ‘ Yes , I can think of one or two people who might have wanted to harm her , as you suggest .
21 ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’
22 ‘ Zambia , my sweet puzzle , I can think of at least two without concentrating .
23 Claire Rayner and Jeni Barnett are the only two I can think of at the moment .
24 I can think of fewer couples more deserving of homage .
25 I hope that when you come back , you will set up your own small specialist firm — I can think of examples — and run the elephants off their feet .
26 I can think of no more deadly combination than the disciplines imposed on us by ERM and Labour 's taste for economic debauchery .
27 Mr Lloyd Webber , in London to receive an Ivor Novello Award for his musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , added : ‘ I might have to write another musical before I can think of doing this again .
28 This is a subject to which more thought should be given , and I can think of no better organisation to pursue it than your own .
29 Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’
30 Germany 's ever-shifting political forms throughout the 19th and 20th centuries , from Customs Union to Federation to Empire to Republic to Third Reich , and her prostration after the war , sliced in two by the East-West divide , confirm in stark reality the lines of the 19th-century poet Hölderlin : ‘ it may be a hard word , but yet I say it , for it is the truth : I can think of no people more divided than the Germans . ’
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