Example sentences of "[verb] think [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 2 | She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time . |
| 3 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 4 | But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook . |
| 5 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 6 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 7 | Hitherto , she 'd thought of him as a friend ; a kind friend , far above her station . |
| 8 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 10 | yeah , yeah I mean I 'd thought about it for ours |
| 11 | Back in the sixties , when the kids seemed to think of nothing but politics and sex , I used to pray God almighty that my Daniele would never turn out like that . |
| 12 | Fabia declared , stoutly , it somehow not sitting very well at all that he seemed to think of her as a child . |
| 13 | The north is at the bottom , and I think it helps if you stop thinking about it as a map and you think about it as a birds-eye view , a helicopter view , erm and then the whole thing begins to make sense . |
| 14 | Charlie Mears , the bank clerk , however , is more usually a secondrate poet who does not understand the value of his ‘ dreams ’ , scorning to think of them in terms of actual reincarnations , though these dreams are so vivid that reality and unreality seem mixed . |
| 15 | For most of their life , they are dormant , and one tends to think of them as graceful upsweeping cones , delicately capped with snow , dreaming serenely over the cherry-blossom-draped landscapes of calendars and travel posters . |
| 16 | On the question of religion , the Buddhist tends to think of it as a raft with which to cross the tempestuous seas of existence , and the Buddha once asked , " What would you say to someone who carried his raft around with him when he had arrived ? " |
| 17 | ‘ I have had to think about myself as an artist much more clearly through being in an alien environment , ’ says Tessa Waite , working in what she describes as ‘ a Victorian asylum in the middle of nowhere . |
| 18 | So , first of all when we 're thinking about our objectives , we 've actually got to think of it in being achievable . |
| 19 | You 've definitely got to think about it at er long-term er , very much so , Chris . |
| 20 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 21 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 22 | I would like to think of him as something else . ’ |
| 23 | An influential politician would command patronage , although one did n't like to think of it like that . |
| 24 | I do n't like to think of you in the cottage all by yourself . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You seem to think of nothing but this James Dreme ’ . |
| 26 | It is debatable how far young readers should be automatising the reading skill , or attempting to think about it as a conscious act . |
| 27 | The next stage is when they begin to think of themselves as workers in Britain and compare their lives with those of other workers , black and white . |
| 28 | Given time , they begin to think of themselves as our equals . |
| 29 | It was at this period that I began to think about myself in the third person : Elizabeth is compassionate and considerate , she thinks how other people might feel . |
| 30 | Then she began to think to herself about which would be best , nasturtiums or sweet peas . |