Example sentences of "could not think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work was out of the question , she could not think about it ; she did not dare go to the tower , she felt she had damaged something : loose talk means hubris . |
| 2 | But that was a question she could not think about . |
| 3 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 4 | For a breathless instant , made dizzy by the fierce uprush of joy sweeping through her , Isabel could not think beyond the fact that he had come . |
| 5 | He admired a point which Stead had made about Polynesians and Christianity , but worried that he could not think of a Christian anthropologist . |
| 6 | For twenty minutes and more I could not think of a thing to write . |
| 7 | They did not and they could not think of themselves as remotely like a frog and a princess , yet mental shapes similar in heritage or configuration managed to creep stealthily up in between the tangles of their individual cells . |
| 8 | Again , Anne felt she ought to do something but could not think of anything . |
| 9 | But he could not think of any other way to work safely . |
| 10 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 11 | He could not think of a single convincing excuse that would get him out of the house . |
| 12 | Nutty could not think of a good answer and nor could Mr Sylvester , so Nails was allowed to come . |
| 13 | I could not think of anything to say . |
| 14 | He could not think of their fate . |
| 15 | Ten per cent could not think of any form . |
| 16 | It seemed a rather broad question , and one for which Lord John could not think of a specific answer . |
| 17 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 18 | He talked about selling Astley and although it was probably little more than talk , he was forced to run it extremely economically , and could not think of another London house on the scale of Eaton Square . |
| 19 | Clara could not think of any scheme in which the man she had just seen could have been described as lovely , but she instantly invented one . |
| 20 | After citing passages from Amand 's case Sir John Donaldson M.R. , with whose judgment Kerr and Lloyd L.JJ. agreed , observed , at p. 977 , that he could not think of a case in which the order appealed from arose more clearly in a criminal cause or matter . |
| 21 | She could not think of anything even remotely polite to say . |
| 22 | But , if I may say so , it was totally acceptable , and I could not think of anything better , so I agreed with alacrity . |
| 23 | At first he sat looking at his feet , and she could not think of a thing to say . |
| 24 | The farmer , who was a great coward , did n't like the idea of going back empty-handed to the tiger , but as he could not think of any other plan , he did as he was told . |
| 25 | but I could not think of its name . |
| 26 | On the way home , she found that she wanted to cry again and could not think of a possible reason why she should . |
| 27 | She had behaved as if she was quite prepared to be Alain 's , and she could not think of any reply at all . |
| 28 | Dr Neil — she could not think of him as Neil — was careful to hold her in such a way that she felt no restraint , although his own self-control was slowly beginning to slip . |
| 29 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 30 | Until she met Rainald she could not think of a future , with or without fitzAlan . |