Example sentences of "i think [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought about the real taxi-drivers in London who took parties of kids to the seaside on day trips each year and realized just what courage was . |
| 2 | On my way upstairs I thought about the famous pianist . |
| 3 | The next day I thought about the possible dangers on the island . |
| 4 | I thought about the early Scottish settlers of the Great Plains of America who endured terrible confusions because of the pure space they had never experienced before , except perhaps at sea . |
| 5 | I thought about the good-hearted couple inside its walls , and suddenly they seemed unimportant . |
| 6 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 7 | I thought of the hundreds of others of us who said something like that once or twice a week . |
| 8 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 9 | And I thought of the other man , the mysterious watcher . |
| 10 | I thought of the two members of my crew who were dead and remembered that if any of us had deserved to die it was 1 , who was responsible for the disaster . |
| 11 | I thought of the far nurseries of the stars and how many days ' sail through the thin seas of hydrogen would take us beyond the space lamps and the burial grounds of the stars . |
| 12 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 13 | I thought of the fearful apprehension of the drug smuggler at the start of Midnight Express , his heart thumping , beads of guilty sweat on his lips . |
| 14 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 15 | I thought of the little touches of home there would be inside it : the hand-knitted pullover , the familiar English toothpaste , and the razor blades fastened together with elastic bands . |
| 16 | I thought of the empty coal yard , and how much it had not needed fire watching . |
| 17 | I thought of the vivid description with which Omar had burdened my memory . |
| 18 | I thought over the 90 minutes we were the better team . |
| 19 | This , I think as the under-11 team nips past to finish , is more like what cross-country running was really meant to be . |
| 20 | I think as the first part of their trade campaign . |
| 21 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |
| 22 | In another school , which is er , locally managed , we are I think about the only school in the county who have decided to employ our own caretaker and our own cleaners , and , and in fact the latitude that gives us , has really allowed us to do a lot more in that school , erm with the staff and the staff are happier . |
| 23 | I think about the only nicknames that my mates have got |
| 24 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 25 | I think about the half-drafted minute lying on my own desk , on a lower floor in the front of this same building , about the arrangements for Sunningdale . |
| 26 | I think about the same time as Walter for the war was declared when we were down there on the third of September . |
| 27 | I think about the last ones that was taken there was an old man Ramsey that died at er Dalvaine , and they carried him out that way . |
| 28 | erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War . |
| 29 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 30 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |