Example sentences of "[noun sg] i can think " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two brothers were very close and no writer I can think of has such a hatred of death as Canetti . |
| 2 | Only very rarely does something of significance appear at auction I can think of only one important major bronze in the last ten years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I thank Heavenly Father , for it is the only escape I can think of . |
| 5 | At this moment I can think of nothing else . ’ |
| 6 | More than any other group I can think of , Microdisney are victims of rock 's over-privileging of the text . |
| 7 | 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 ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The simplest example I can think of is a hole . |
| 10 | ‘ I think there are more twisted , envious and irresponsible people in the London newspaper world than in any comparable area I can think of . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's the only reason I can think of for her to get so much wrong . |
| 14 | For no reason I can think of , a mutual dislike had arisen . |
| 15 | ‘ That is the only reason I can think of . |
| 16 | ‘ No reason I can think of , but why tell me ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The only thing I can think about now is being hard up . |
| 19 | Well that 's the only thing I can think of . |
| 20 | ‘ Spilt blood is quite the untidiest thing I can think of — much worse than milk . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Did n't know you , anything about you , and the only thing I can think of to explain it is that Maura , Donal 's sister , told him the name of the family I was looking for . |
| 23 | The only thing I can think of to say is : — |
| 24 | I know they have n't , so that 's the only thing I can think of is over there on er that |
| 25 | The only thing I can think about |
| 26 | It 's the only thing I can think of to do it . |
| 27 | The only answer I can think is that some enterprising editor believed that , with ET all the rage after Star Wars , the time was ripe for a study of how Earthlings behave when aliens land . |
| 28 | It 's the only explanation I can think of — no one else would plant it . ’ |
| 29 | The only way I can think of getting out is to take my life , but if I did , I 'd have to take my little girls with me . |
| 30 | It 's the only way I can think of to explain the coincidences in the tales you 've told me . |