Example sentences of "think what " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the gesture she uses later to make the Prince think what he must do to wake Aurora . |
| 2 | One of the classic findings of media research in British election campaigns is Trenaman and McQuail 's ( 1961 ) assertion that ‘ the evidence strongly suggests that people think about what they are told … but at no level do they think what they are told ’ . |
| 3 | I do n't think what you run makes any difference , because I 've run companies of very diverse natures and the principles that apply to British Steel at one end apply equally to a small company at the other end of the scale . |
| 4 | I ca n't think what animal to do . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think what is happening in Panama can be compared to a raid to rescue hostages , ’ says Prof Gutteridge . |
| 6 | Haunted by a fear that I have forgotten to stock up on one of the essentials of life but can not think what it is . |
| 7 | ‘ Honest , Jin , ’ she called , ‘ I ca n't think what you see in that great lummock . |
| 8 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 9 | For a moment , neither Mungo nor Emily could think what he was talking about . |
| 10 | She might even , he suggested , as they went to the stairs , benefit from a quiet winter with her sister to help and think what joy lay ahead with Oreste brought to her at last . |
| 11 | I can not think what his poetry would be like . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't think what we can do , ’ said Endill . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't think what suddenly got into him . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't think what you mean . |
| 15 | He was silent only because he could n't think what to say to her , He walked with her , looked polite , and noted that her teeth and her temper seemed fair , and she was fine and broad across the hips for child-bearing . |
| 16 | They can think what they like . |
| 17 | Do you think what you did was unlawful ? |
| 18 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 19 | In part , Southey 's changed manner reflected his desperate irritation with someone whose procrastinating habits had become unignorable in the cramped spaces of 25 College Street ( Coleridge admitted to Southey that ‘ you sate down and wrote — I used to saunter about and think what I should write ’ ) . |
| 20 | I could not think what it was that could be for me and yet so heavy . |
| 21 | Thiercelin still could not think what he was talking about . |
| 22 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 23 | We could n't think what was happening to you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You ca n't think what it 's been like . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't think what happened , ’ she murmured . |
| 26 | She picked up her skirt and fled from the hospital before letting herself think what James 's absence meant . |
| 27 | He would go home and think what to do . |
| 28 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 29 | Now I 've got to go away and think what I 'm gon na do . ’ |
| 30 | I could n't think what was wrong . |