Example sentences of "[modal v] [pron] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also perfectly in order to say , ‘ May I think about that for a moment ? ’ before answering a question , although clearly it would become rather tedious if you said that every time . |
| 2 | May I think of you ? ’ |
| 3 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , On no account must you think of suicide ! |
| 4 | ‘ Fabia , what must you think of me ? ’ he asked , contrition in every syllable . |
| 5 | So how should you think about electrostatic energy ? |
| 6 | Another concerns the way in which selection acts , and in particular the target of selection : should we think of genes , or organisms , or populations , as being the entities which survive and reproduce , and upon which selection acts ? |
| 7 | How , therefore , should we think of the uses of language , in a way that could provide functional accounts of linguistic structure ? |
| 8 | Secondly , what is the nature of the links between the manufacturing and the service sectors and , thirdly , how should we think about service sector output ? |
| 9 | I 'll I think at least four particular areas where the United Kingdom has decided not to , as it were , take the full specification . |
| 10 | What other things might we think about the trainee ? |
| 11 | When might we think of making a start ? " |
| 12 | Just think about it , I mean , in a real life situation , think about , ought you think about , imagine what how much do you know about , do you need to use your network , to find out what |
| 13 | How could I think of myself ? |
| 14 | Could you think of any other words that we could use to describe Manyara the eldest sister ? |
| 15 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 16 | Yet how could she think of love in connection with this ruthless , powerful man ? |
| 17 | How could she think of such a thing ? |
| 18 | No longer could we think of space and time as running on forever , unaffected by what happened in the universe . |
| 19 | Only then could they think of moving against him . |
| 20 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 21 | Nor could he think of anyone who would want to kill him . |
| 22 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 23 | Objective setting is a dialogue discussing the question ‘ What shall I think about ? ’ |
| 24 | What on earth would she think of me ? |
| 25 | What would she think of his twinkling nipples ? |
| 26 | What would she think of our country ? |
| 27 | But when she got to Auckland , when she found herself alone with Damian for three days and three nights … what would she think of then ? |
| 28 | What would you think of that ? ’ |
| 29 | All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First . |
| 30 | ‘ So if you was me , what would you think about that happy-birthday message I got ? ’ |