Example sentences of "[num] [noun] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not believe it ; I had another 30 minutes to think of all the things that could go wrong . |
| 2 | My view is that we 've got forty years to think about it and we can surely think ahead . |
| 3 | The player chosen has three minutes to think of as many words as possible beginning with that letter . |
| 4 | It was almost as if he had spent three weeks thinking over what he had been doing and worked it all out . |
| 5 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 6 | Annette Rennoldson , of Tyne Avenue , Leadgate , Consett , had three girls thought to be the first all-female trio born at Shotley Bridge Hospital . |
| 7 | Six nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion monastery at Daventry end their hen house occupation to prevent the slaughter of 5,000 hens thought to be infected with salmonella . |
| 8 | Sixteen children thought to be at high risk had a further individual assessment . |
| 9 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 10 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 11 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |
| 12 | ‘ I shall allow myself fifteen minutes to think about her . ’ |
| 13 | That 's one skill thought about it , is n't there , there 's another idea that doing that is actually , has the opposite effect , but the only , you praise somebody , when you 're criticising , you say , well look you 've well anyway . |
| 14 | Twelve years to think on it , twelve years and not five gone . |
| 15 | The pottery was as late as any in Roman Britain and even included one sherd thought to be ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ since it had impressed on to it a Saxon type of stamp ; however , the vessel was wheel-turned and clearly of Romano-British manufacture . |
| 16 | Sometimes mistaken for the name of a tribe of redskins , the word ‘ Hooliganism ’ established itself in Russia with such authority and incomprehensible rapidity that one observer thought in 1912 that it was ‘ as if it had long been expected , as if necessary for the filling of an empty space ’ . |
| 17 | One way to think of the development of the worm is to draw an analogy with a digital computer and think of the cells at every cell division making a discrete choice as to what to do next . |
| 18 | One way to think of this is as a type of economies of joint production . |
| 19 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 20 | I was there , after all , and I have had twenty years to think about it . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that he also used birds as his trademark and a carving at Trull in Somerset shows a large ‘ W ’ supported by two birds thought to be woodpecker ; a medieval pun ? |
| 22 | Then ask one or two people to think of any cards , to remember them , but not tell you which two they are . |
| 23 | Two men thought to be about 19 struck when the 18year-old was on his way from work in Crown Street , Darlington , with the firm 's takings . |
| 24 | Dear Uncle Mike and Auntie Sue … they had four children to think about , but had still made the effort to choose a book Rebecca would really enjoy . |
| 25 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |
| 26 | When she had finished there was silence as the other seven women thought of their lovers , their husbands , their brothers and fathers . |