Example sentences of "[noun] and think [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 2 | Take your hands off your stupid ears and think what we 're going to do next . |
| 3 | Gedge joked to music writers that he had accidentally played the original Orange Juice song at the wrong speed and thought it sounded great . |
| 4 | It 's the only way they can go around harassing and criminalizing black kids and think they 're doing a good job . |
| 5 | If she left him long enough , sitting in the dark in the boathouse and thinking it over , perhaps he would never do anything wrong again . |
| 6 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |
| 7 | The police found the burned car and thought I was dead . |
| 8 | They were intrigued by our entry and thought we had installed a much more powerful engine . ’ |
| 9 | As the two women shook hands Didi added , ‘ I heard voices and thought I 'd pop in to say hello . ’ |
| 10 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 11 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 12 | The ethnography was a means of observing how the wider patterns of society — its inequalities and histories of domination — flow through patterns of living and thinking which seem so ordinary . |
| 13 | People still wear flares and think they 're being groovy . |
| 14 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 15 | Stephanie is regularly offered geriatric roles and thinks it is because she was brought up surrounded by archetypal elderly Englishwomen — ‘ I suppose it entered my bloodstream ’ . |
| 16 | There were some ragged robins in a jar on the windowsill ; she put the jar on the tray and thought it looked nice . |
| 17 | I woke up having 5 minute contractions and thought I 'd lost ‘ my water ’ on the loo , without really being sure ( if only you could have a trial run — but then you might not go through with it if you did ! ) |
| 18 | ‘ I came back because I was hoping to get some England recognition and thought my chances would improve , especially under a manager whom I loved working with at Sheffield Wednesday , ’ the player admitted . |
| 19 | ‘ I came back because I was hoping to get some England recognition and thought my chances would improve , especially under a manager whom I loved working with at Sheffield Wednesday , ’ the player admitted . |
| 20 | It 's an embarrassment for people to come in and catch cold and think it 's your mattresses that 's done it . |
| 21 | She is looking for work and thinks she may be forced to move to London in search of a job . |
| 22 | I saw you through the window and thought you could probably do with something to eat and drink . ’ |
| 23 | She stared out of the window and thought she could write a book in the time it was taking them to get to Nice , which really was just around the corner . |
| 24 | I occasionally find myself eyeing some bloke and thinking I would n't mind popping into bed — but passion … no thanks . ’ |
| 25 | He liked George Birkitt and thought he was a good actor . |
| 26 | Both Harald and Swegen had taken Slavonic consorts and thought it desirable to subjugate Norway . |
| 27 | They were friendly , but with a suburban reserve ; they were mad on sport and thought everybody knew all about it ; and they were gaining a glittering net-curtain prosperity against a background of ruined buildings that in England had been bombed in the war ( and in Ireland had fallen down ) . |
| 28 | I saw this little cutting and thought it might encourage some of us who have passed our sell by date stage . |
| 29 | You just let yourself into your own home and thought they 'd be upstairs asleep ? ’ |
| 30 | Cos I I got the two science lectures and thought I 'll try and get a couple of arts lectures , |