Example sentences of "think [prep] [Wh det] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't bear to remember the dreadful things she had said that day , any more than she could think about what was happening to Maggie now . |
| 2 | In a way a baby seemed less likely than before Claudia was pregnant : perhaps we did n't dare think about what was about to happen . |
| 3 | If one thinks of what was done one must also think of those who did it . ’ |
| 4 | She wondered if she could think with what was left of her grey matter . |
| 5 | I shut out all thought of what was to come . |
| 6 | I think I wanted to convince myself that I was going to be all right because if I did n't and if I stopped to think about what was really going on , I would have been a mess . |
| 7 | Think of what was , she told herself , since only that is relevant . |
| 8 | But she did n't want to think of what was gone . |
| 9 | At last she began : ‘ I 've come to see things differently since I 've had time to think over what was in the will . |
| 10 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |