Example sentences of "[verb] of [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may need reminding of what to do , so it may help to talk them through it . |
| 2 | She could think of nothing to live for . |
| 3 | I ca n't think of nothing to say , so I just nod . |
| 4 | Soaked , confused and miserable , Mungo could think of nothing to say either . |
| 5 | Because he could think of nothing to say to her in reply , Gaily bought her a drink and left . |
| 6 | She could think of nothing to say . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He could think of nothing to say , and Ellen went on . |
| 9 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 10 | Constance could think of nothing to say . |
| 11 | She could think of nothing to say . |
| 12 | I could think of nothing to say to that , so I said nothing . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She could think of nothing to say . |
| 17 | For once , Zelah could think of nothing to say . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For a startled second Fabia could think of nothing to say — but not so Ven . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The other could think of nothing to tell to either corroborate or add to the mystery . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure we can think of something to do to pass the next hour or so , ’ he told her encouragingly . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll think of something to celebrate , ’ Harry said , returning her smile . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For the life of him he could n't think of what to do next . |
| 27 | ‘ Ca n't think of what to say , that it ? ’ |
| 28 | I can not think of what to say . |
| 29 | I 've got ta , I 've got ta think of one , I 've got ta think of what to say |
| 30 | I decided not to — simply because I could n't think of what to write . |