Example sentences of "[verb] i think [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling .
2 Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’
3 It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert .
4 It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church .
5 She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace .
6 E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor
7 It made me think of the Palace Hotel .
8 His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place .
9 Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine .
10 But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then .
11 Can I just comment I think on the process , what happens is , is that in fact the application is made by the director of property services , we do n't now have a first resolution or a second resolution .
12 No I do n't think so , but I mean I think on the whole that the pop the admin the erm Clinton Administrations Policy is to try and encourage the development of nat the use of natural gas , it 's environmentally er more acceptable and so I do n't see any particular erm direct threat this year .
13 I did , you 'll have to forgive me , I mean I think for the sake of those who were not at the meeting erm what we should really say is that actually said that he wanted to hear what kind of a parish we are so that he could attempt to match the , the incoming priest with you know the need of the parish .
14 I mean I think at the end of the day because we 're w going to have to basically in a sense your job I think even though at the moment you 're saying you know fine I 'm not gon na exclude anything , I think it 's actually going to be sort of , to try and eliminate most of this .
15 I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one .
16 change I think from the with the we 've got a staff meeting on the
17 Err I think by the way I 've pretty much got all the the areas wrapped up in Scotland if we can just get going and we can get
18 I sha n't be sorry to get home to Blackstone Rd , it worries me to think of the damp and the dirt , I hope you did what I said and aired all the rooms and linen like I said and got a good cleaning woman in like I said the same as with you , I hope .
19 Can for the purpose of continuing the discussion , can we concentrate I think on the A fifty nine corr otherwise we shall get slightly cross threaded here .
20 I 've got that targeted I think for an Easter job .
21 I think the the the B W the Barton Willmore analysis appears to overlook the fact , and again Mr Jewitt referred to this when he referred to Easingwold , that settlement evolves over time , and and nobody seems to be addressing the point that that fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred , two thousand houses , however many it is , wo n't appear over night , erm er th it would take some time for that to be to be realized erm and as part of that there 's no clear view as to when the services will come along that are that are necessary to give that community the balance it it said it requires , erm , Mr Timothy from Wood Fram Frampton referred I think to a figure of twelve fifty dwellings for a viable new settlement , and there were plenty ex of of examples , quote , erm that one could look at to see that was the case , erm I I 'd be interested to know where those examples are an and what there make up erm is .
22 ‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute .
23 Let me think for a while . ’
24 I know what 's coming , it 's always the same , please God make her stop , help me bear it , let me think of a poem to say as a distraction , make this all go away , Charlotte , Alexander , Mother , everything , only not father , not the farm — ;
25 We also talked about the new settlement being self-contained and integrated , but came I think to a consensus around the table that the level of employment provision in the new settlement should be related to the level of employment supply in the new settlement as opposed to a level of employment which would satisfy employment needs
26 I am very happy , in fact , that the whole the whole process the whole business of erm switching the system has been accepted and in fact even welcomed I think by the unions .
27 Erm yes he , I believe it th th that stage was when er he said we 'll put y we 'll pus we 'll find some clothes for you mate erm , I I do recollect P C going I think to the foot of the double bed or near to the base of the double bed where he found a pair of erm jeans and I do remember him checking the pockets erm and then helping or trying like put the jeans on on the man that was lying on the ground still handcuffed .
28 That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’
29 erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War .
30 But it was ‘ Tusk ’ that started me thinking along the lines of trying to be true to what I think 's interesting and not necessarily just what people want to hear . ’
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