Example sentences of "[noun] i can think " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only reasons I can think of are 1 ) trying to scare Deano into scoring ( ! ) ; and 2 ) work permits . |
| 2 | The two brothers were very close and no writer I can think of has such a hatred of death as Canetti . |
| 3 | Only very rarely does something of significance appear at auction I can think of only one important major bronze in the last ten years . |
| 4 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 5 | A. The Flag or Festive Cichlid , Mesonauta festivus , is one of the most peaceful Cichlids I can think of . |
| 6 | There are lots of plain old-fashioned words I can think of right now , going back to the Bible , some of them . ’ |
| 7 | The the other advantages I can think of at the moment for erm getting company to say yes it the obvious connections to company . |
| 8 | I thank Heavenly Father , for it is the only escape I can think of . |
| 9 | At this moment I can think of nothing else . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But it 's certainly true of a couple of places I can think of . |
| 11 | More than any other group I can think of , Microdisney are victims of rock 's over-privileging of the text . |
| 12 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 13 | I think I also write better bass lines than I did before , because when I 'm writing with my sequencers and things I can think ‘ bass ’ very easily . ’ |
| 14 | The valley is drained by the Clough River ( unusually so named , this being the only example I can think of where the word ‘ River ’ follows the name instead of preceding it ) . |
| 15 | The simplest example I can think of is a hole . |
| 16 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 17 | ‘ I think there are more twisted , envious and irresponsible people in the London newspaper world than in any comparable area I can think of . |
| 18 | If I cross my hands over my breast I can think I 'm dead and in paradise , but it 's true what they say , you can get too tired to sleep . |
| 19 | Perhaps you can wrap fish and chips in computer output , but that , it seems to me , is the only asset I can think of for ordinary domestic life . |
| 20 | The only good and powerful females I can think of are fairies ( ie , not real people ) and for every fairy godmother there are 10 wimpy heroines waiting for a prince to rescue them . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm glad I did n't because , in the three instances I can think of , I 'm not in love with that person any more . |
| 22 | It 's the only reason I can think of for her to get so much wrong . |
| 23 | For no reason I can think of , a mutual dislike had arisen . |
| 24 | ‘ That is the only reason I can think of . |
| 25 | ‘ No reason I can think of , but why tell me ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The only thing I can think about now is being hard up . |
| 28 | Well that 's the only thing I can think of . |
| 29 | ‘ Spilt blood is quite the untidiest thing I can think of — much worse than milk . ’ |
| 30 | To keep them in my sights , I would have to hitch a lift on something shiny — Riva 's wedding ring is the only thing I can think of that might work . |