Example sentences of "could think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | she could think of nothing but her son . |
| 2 | Both men were dubious about how long someone would be able to endure in the winter , equally they could think of no alternative . |
| 3 | I could think of nothing except going to London and finding my way among its tall buildings studded with lights . |
| 4 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 5 | ‘ Any damn fool … could think of questions ; it was answers that separated the men from the boys . ’ |
| 6 | If we could think of a better system we would introduce it . |
| 7 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 8 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the greatest incentive I could think of . |
| 10 | ‘ We did everything that we could think of to get the name Balbirnie flying up there , ’ Brown says . |
| 11 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 12 | ‘ Better files than people , I told him , but that did not interest him : all he could think of was the files . ’ |
| 13 | The busker who plays Chariots Of Fire on a Casio organ at Bank would leave it in a trice if only he could think of some other way of turning a penny . |
| 14 | Meinhard Miegel , once a Christian Democratic politician , who heads the Institut für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ( Institute for Economics and Society ) in Bonn , could think of no influential German think-tank — even the one run by Greens — that did not accept the basic tenets of the social market . |
| 15 | He is not , he says , one who ‘ detracts from the existence or reality of things ’ ; and anyone who thinks otherwise ‘ is very far from understanding what hath been premised in the plainest terms I could think of ’ . |
| 16 | It was the only person he could think of . |
| 17 | Nigel 's sympathetic male editor agreed to ask all the good-looking women writers he could think of . |
| 18 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |
| 19 | Just for her own satisfaction she pulled the very worst one she could think of — worse than any of Oz 's — with her cheeks blown out , her eyes crossed and the tip of her tongue protruding . |
| 20 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 21 | All he could think of was the small , dark , murderous hole . |
| 22 | Anything they could think of . ’ |
| 23 | All I could think of was to give a sickly smile and to murmur , ‘ I think you are probably right . ’ |
| 24 | I had invited everyone I could think of to tea , and we had been invited back , but it was not her style , and when she complained that it was not right for her ‘ to be living among all these old people ’ I understood very well what she meant . |
| 25 | Every subject I could think of could be painful to her and in any case would be hard to sustain as a monologue . |
| 26 | There was nothing I could think of to say , so I said nothing . |
| 27 | Marie could think of nothing else to say . |
| 28 | All he could think of was : ‘ Keep him in a good mood ! |
| 29 | There was nothing else he could think of to say . |
| 30 | Clarissa could think of nothing constructive to say except that she was so sorry . |