Example sentences of "think of [adj] [art] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 2 | Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed . |
| 3 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
| 4 | Think of all the times I have n't come across my next-door neighbours on holiday in Innsbruck , or met my dentist while eating a cream meringue … more coffee ? ’ |
| 5 | I think of all the people I know , and I ca n't remember how any of them behave . |
| 6 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |