Example sentences of "think of [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 She could think of nothing to live for .
2 I ca n't think of nothing to say , so I just nod .
3 Soaked , confused and miserable , Mungo could think of nothing to say either .
4 Because he could think of nothing to say to her in reply , Gaily bought her a drink and left .
5 She could think of nothing to say .
6 I glanced at her , trying to hide my embarrassment with a swift and flippant response , but I could think of nothing to say and so I looked back at the binnacle , then up to the long moon-burnished sea ahead .
7 He could think of nothing to say , and Ellen went on .
8 This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say .
9 Constance could think of nothing to say .
10 She could think of nothing to say .
11 I could think of nothing to say to that , so I said nothing .
12 We talked of England : and my host was so inspiring in his eloquence on the subject of what England might have achieved in friendship with Germany that , as I looked out on the twilight enshrouding the Kurfiarstendamm I could think of nothing to say but Marlowe 's famous lines :
13 And he too seemed to have exhausted his conversational store ; she thought that they would both have liked to continue talking , but they could think of nothing to say .
14 In October 1939 he caught a feverish cold ; he was altogether melancholy and restless , and when at the end of the year he was asked to make a radio broadcast , he refused because he could think of nothing to say .
15 She could think of nothing to say .
16 For once , Zelah could think of nothing to say .
17 Fabia opened her mouth to make some kind of sophisticated reply , but her heart was racing so much — nobody had even paid her such an extravagant compliment before , and yet made it sound true and sincere , and not extravagant at all — that she could think of nothing to say .
18 For a startled second Fabia could think of nothing to say — but not so Ven .
19 She was far too early to go to the office , it was a waste of time to go home and she could think of nothing to do .
20 The other could think of nothing to tell to either corroborate or add to the mystery .
21 ‘ Well , I 'm sure we can think of something to do to pass the next hour or so , ’ he told her encouragingly .
22 He smiled in a way that tightened every single nerve in her body , and added suggestively , ‘ But I 'm sure we can think of something to do to pass the time . ’
23 ‘ We 'll think of something to celebrate , ’ Harry said , returning her smile .
24 She wished she could think of something to say that would make him trust her , only after her stupid behaviour earlier she thought it might be a long time before he fully believed her .
25 If you can think of something do it .
26 ‘ I 'll think of something do n't worry , but in the meantime we wo n't starve .
27 I ca n't think of one shot I 've taken that would be out of place in a family album .
28 If you ca n't think of one make it up What 's the difference , what 's the difference
29 Erm , now you could n't do that with that and that sounds intuitively like the kind of expression that we might have , just because I ca n't think of one does n't mean that
30 The men who came to see you , they would n't think of somebody having to empty their pockets before they play the piano — but that 's really what a woman does , is n't it ?
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