Example sentences of "of [indef pn] [pron] would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We nearly died today , and I could think of nothing I 'd rather do than exult in life by taking you to bed . |
| 2 | For example , one of Freud 's patients , who invented the term ‘ omnipotence of thought ’ , which Freud uses in his third paper in Totem and Taboo , used to think that if he thought of someone he would then always meet them , or if asked how someone was , he would hear that they had died . |
| 3 | She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else . |
| 4 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 5 | Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’ |
| 6 | I ca n't think of anyone I 'd really like to speak to , except Marie of course , but I du n no if she 's got a phone in Scotland . |