Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 2 | We all need a myth of some kind , whether it 's in living forever , in Communism or thinking you come from Sirius . |
| 3 | It will include reasoning or thinking and might make considerable use of long-term memory or experience . |
| 4 | You may think this is unlikely ( ! ) but there 'll be some old Coventry fans who have your autograph & think they 've got something really valuable … only to find … |
| 5 | One set of reactions to a traumatic experience are termed ‘ positive ’ , a non-evaluative term , and consist of compulsions to repeat an action or thought , and fixation at an early stage of development . |
| 6 | By allowing the individual to choose freely , Miliband rejects , according to Poulantzas , the underlying logic of Marxist thinking that thought and action is determined and shaped by the logic and requirements of capitalism . |
| 7 | This activity is performed by the hand , when we think by writing ; by the mouth and larynx , when we think by speaking ; and if we think by imagining signs or pictures , I can give you no agent that thinks . |
| 8 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 9 | Things get harder the further you reach , and as you 're working against the clock there 's no sitting and thinking for too long . |
| 10 | ‘ By the way , Chief Inspector , can you give Ken a ring and think about giving him a hand with that robbery case ? |
| 11 | Gedge joked to music writers that he had accidentally played the original Orange Juice song at the wrong speed and thought it sounded great . |
| 12 | If she left him long enough , sitting in the dark in the boathouse and thinking it over , perhaps he would never do anything wrong again . |
| 13 | SIR — We share Coulter 's concerns ( May 8 , p 1185 ) about the general lack of objective assessment of menstrual blood loss and think that there are two reasons behind this . |
| 14 | Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him . |
| 15 | He made some non-committal reply and thought no more about it until , a couple of days later , when the mob was actually storming the chancery building in the main square , he looked out of the window to see the assistant military attache playing the pipes . |
| 16 | For some reason , perhaps because they had heard it together , she equated that girl with the dead girl in her mind and thought that if bombers could actually see the people they were going to kill , see that they were young and beautiful and full of hope , they might not do what they did . |
| 17 | Purity of mind and thought . |
| 18 | Given a dichotomous division between sensing and thinking this would appear to be the only option open to him . |
| 19 | Well I think for them to be in , in management , top management positions a lot of them they 'd have to be pretty sensing and thinking before well I do I mean I think there 's |
| 20 | Hold it in your mouth and think about it . ’ |
| 21 | She sat and drank the tea and thought about S. Kettering . |
| 22 | I sat by the fire and read the file twice , then I went back into the kitchen , made myself some more tea and a chicken sandwich and sat at the table , eating the sandwich and thinking about things . |
| 23 | It is not a step to take without a great deal of research and thought , taking into account the considerations outlined above . |
| 24 | Should the social anthropologists abandon the pretence that they are natural scientists in disguise and think of themselves only as " scientists " in Vico 's sense — scholars in pursuit of understanding ? |
| 25 | He was wearing jeans with a dirty sweater and thought no one would know he was a policeman . |
| 26 | And when he got there the bloke said oh just pull up and go and get it done now , I said now any other man would of gone in the cafe and thought right , I would of been drop now till twelve |
| 27 | Whenever I talk to groups of teachers who are willing for a moment to lay aside the grim realities and talk and think big , I hear them saying exactly the same . |
| 28 | However they should not be a worry for a pilot who is well trained , and who keeps in practice and thinks about the conditions before each flight . |
| 29 | It would not need too keen an eye ( nor a cynical disposition ) to spot a coincidence between one of the editors of the volumes and the present author of this piece and think … |
| 30 | I stopped the car and thought for a bit . |