Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 2 | Better far to confront them all , and let them make of it what they would . |
| 3 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 4 | Prince 's music makes me think of Des Esseintes 's symphony of perfumes : exquisite , heady , overpowering , slightly nauseous . |
| 5 | It helps me think of them . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He is not in the least like any of Henrietta 's children , but when I see him laugh and run he makes me think of them , being nearer the little one 's age than my Penini . |
| 7 | My day has been spent in sleeping , reading a little , which at once made me think of you — and then , mostly , thinking of you , and feeling you so close … |
| 8 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 9 | ’ Boy often made me think of that particular moment — it was the way he looked down . |
| 10 | I 'm watching it , and I want you to watch it too , it makes me think of you . ’ |
| 11 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 12 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 13 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 14 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 15 | These bands make me think of Robert Bridges ' poem of love , I Will Not Let Thee Go . |
| 16 | This time of the building of the gardens of our minds makes me think of the Pacific Ocean where insects spin the sunlight and the salt water , and weave them into the most beautiful oases of the sea . |
| 17 | I laughed at this , but it made me think of where Charlie may have inherited some of his cruelty . |
| 18 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 19 | It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’ |
| 20 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 21 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 22 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 23 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 24 | It made me think of my convict 's travelling companion . |
| 25 | That made me think of my convict . |
| 26 | I wanted to forget him , because he makes me think of his mother . |
| 27 | Yes I think that , jut having said the word survive , there erm , makes me think of if er they are actually surviving , but not living . |
| 28 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 29 | It 's the kind of place best avoided after dark ; it makes me think of poor Moley , and Ratty 's warning , and that 's why I call it the Wild Wood . |
| 30 | It made me think of Cymbeline . |