Example sentences of "[conj] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope people wo n't intrude or think he 's odd . |
| 2 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 3 | This chapter looks at how our personalities can experience ‘ more than we can ask or think ’ , as Paul the apostle once expressed it . |
| 4 | This is the absolute character of Christian joy , not in being supermen or women , but in receiving the gift of faith in Christ , who is able to do far above all that we can ask or think . |
| 5 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 6 | What other men might say or think was nothing to him ; his detachment would carry him far above earthly matters . |
| 7 | We might surrender to fear , which is when it will eat us completely , leaving us paralysed and unable to act or think clearly . |
| 8 | Whatever you can do or think you can , begin it . |
| 9 | Whatever you can do or think you can , begin it . |
| 10 | Without this information , the speechreader may appear to interrupt rudely or think that something is going on that he is missing . |
| 11 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 12 | They draw creatures towards them and if they shine on you , you ca n't see or think which way to go . |
| 13 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 14 | She is first to admit she would be an extremely difficult patient if she could not read or think . |
| 15 | But damn it to hell , I 've never been able to see clearly or think straight where you 're concerned — certainly not since you came to Taipei , and maybe not even six years ago either . |
| 16 | Moreover , they have no hesitation in stressing the point that builders do not operate or think in terms familiar to planners ; instead they look to ‘ market signals ’ . |
| 17 | And you know , as we come and submit ourselves to God , and as we look back , whether it 's back on a day , on a week , on a month , on year , on a lifetime , he has given to us far , far more than we could ever have asked or expected from him ! , as the apostle said , he is able to do abundantly above all that we can ask or think ! |
| 18 | He could neither move nor think , as if all power had at a stroke been cut off from both body and brain . |
| 19 | Yet , rather than think out new and just ways of distributing the riches to which we have all fallen heir , it uses those riches as the basis for deadly quarrels . |
| 20 | Rather than think , oh well , there 's a couple of people , group running it , that 's near enough and it 's good enough . |
| 21 | It can do anything except think . |
| 22 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 23 | The generation that rediscovered the existential was precisely the one best fitted to look and think ‘ within ’ , which is not unrealism , but a different form of realism — and one unavoidable to such as Leonard , given the horrors inflicted on his own people by the most ‘ culturally advanced ’ nation of the day . |
| 24 | Yet , have n't we tried to teach and think in non-racial history ? |
| 25 | Like , you get teachers who join the police ; they 're not good policemen to me , they do n't eat and think like policemen . |
| 26 | After a hour of simpering sycophancy from the presenter , the Prince took the viewer into his garden , where he said he loved to sit and think and talk to his plants . |
| 27 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 28 | Let me try and think of an example that is n't confidential . |
| 29 | First , a lot of rich foundations are ready to pay good money to people to sit and think . |
| 30 | Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion that ‘ since we know not wherein thinking consists ’ , it may be , for all we know , that nothing more than matter is necessary for thought , and that God might have ‘ given to some systems of matter fitly disposed , a power to perceive and think ’ . |