Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] can think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two brothers were very close and no writer I can think of has such a hatred of death as Canetti . |
| 2 | Only very rarely does something of significance appear at auction I can think of only one important major bronze in the last ten years . |
| 3 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 4 | I thank Heavenly Father , for it is the only escape I can think of . |
| 5 | December issues of every publication you can think of include samplers of Calvin Klein 's Obsession , Giorgi 's Beverly Hills or Ralph Lauren 's Safari . |
| 6 | They 've got every kind of toy and equipment you can think of . |
| 7 | So , if talk of painting the town red brings the flaking bathroom walls to mind , in the only rush of spontaneity you can think of is your baby 's before you 've managed to get her clean nappy on , maybe you 're missing out . |
| 8 | This town alongside a hugh lake where fishing , sailing , windsurfing , swimming and just about every other aquatic sport you can think of gets waterspace . |
| 9 | In relation to the tap and glass metaphor we can think of these as being something like a plunger that fits over the glass and which forces down the level of stress . |
| 10 | Hydrogen you can think of very much as a fuel in the manner of north sea gas and it 's got a high calorific value , it burns well and , despite rumours , it 's actually a very safe fuel as well . |
| 11 | At this moment I can think of nothing else . ’ |
| 12 | More than any other group I can think of , Microdisney are victims of rock 's over-privileging of the text . |
| 13 | Every shop had its errand-boy , and meat , fish , green , grocery and almost any commodity you can think of could be delivered to the door . |
| 14 | The list of fax cards and fax modems with which the software will work is extensive , and covers just about every piece of kit we can think of , which is reassuring . |
| 15 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 16 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |
| 17 | yes , any colour you can think of , I mean erm , blue I think is one of the worse , but thinking of lampshades we used to sell a lot of er lampshades for putting on table lamps er and erm , we 'd have just about every colour and somebody would come along and say well erm have n't you got one in purple and of course I 'd refrain from saying thank god no I have n't |
| 18 | she said now I do like that , cos it looks nice and warm cos there 's loads of colours in it , there 's pink , there 's burgundy , there 's blue , green , every colour you can think of , you 've bro |
| 19 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 20 | The valley is drained by the Clough River ( unusually so named , this being the only example I can think of where the word ‘ River ’ follows the name instead of preceding it ) . |
| 21 | The simplest example I can think of is a hole . |
| 22 | ‘ I think there are more twisted , envious and irresponsible people in the London newspaper world than in any comparable area I can think of . |
| 23 | Until recently Chandler have busied themselves producing guitar parts and accessories — everything from high-quality necks and exotic wood bodies to various pickups and just about every guitar-orientated nut and bolt you can think of . |
| 24 | And then she was gone leaving me shaking with every turbulent feeling you can think of . |
| 25 | Perhaps you can wrap fish and chips in computer output , but that , it seems to me , is the only asset I can think of for ordinary domestic life . |
| 26 | It 's the only reason I can think of for her to get so much wrong . |
| 27 | For no reason I can think of , a mutual dislike had arisen . |
| 28 | ‘ That is the only reason I can think of . |
| 29 | ‘ No reason I can think of , but why tell me ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The only thing I can think about now is being hard up . |