Example sentences of "they [vb mod] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then they may think of some other way of avoiding public sale ( vouchers and member-clutchers probably ) . |
| 2 | Nicholson blasted : ‘ It 's a ridiculous situation , and they ought to think about changing the rules in Ireland . |
| 3 | They must think about a layette . |
| 4 | For managers to be able to resolve ethical dilemmas , says Ms Nash , they should think of their business in terms of covenants — with employees , customers , suppliers and so on . |
| 5 | None of them talked much , but Ruth tentatively suggested as a parting thought that perhaps they should think about doing some more systematic theoretical study . |
| 6 | I wonder what they 'll think of us ? |
| 7 | But before that before the sell out concert tour in Ireland , did you ever think I wonder what they 'll think of us back home I wonder if we 'll still do it ? |
| 8 | A lot of people will probably relate it to that commercial I think , or they 'll think of the little bunny rabbits in Duracell , that 's what I thought |
| 9 | Your history department or geography department may say well if we had a micro we 'd be able to do such and such and they 'll think about that in competition with other needs — textbooks or whatever _ so you 'll see departments using them , as I say , in the same way that we 'd use other sophisticated aids . |
| 10 | Abortion is free and Irina , 32 , a gynaecological surgeon , thinks that if women had to pay they might think about it more . |
| 11 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 12 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 13 | They might think to themselves , what is the most important thing for us to home in on first of all ? |
| 14 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 15 | FORGET WHAT they might think in Paris and Milan : China 's fashion commissars have decreed what is and is not stylish . |
| 16 | Both men were dubious about how long someone would be able to endure in the winter , equally they could think of no alternative . |
| 17 | Anything they could think of . ’ |
| 18 | There was no way they could think of escaping now . |
| 19 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 20 | Every surface that might have had a fingerprint was wiped , every trace they could think of expunged . |
| 21 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 22 | Then Radio One discovered the song , and soon the nation was full of people declaring their over-sexiness for anything they could think of . |
| 23 | Between them they could think of no way to get the food Mrs MacDonagh had cooked that afternoon , and the plates she had left in the stove , from the kitchen to the table at dinner time without something getting cold . |
| 24 | And he too seemed to have exhausted his conversational store ; she thought that they would both have liked to continue talking , but they could think of nothing to say . |
| 25 | But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics . |
| 26 | For the moment the sepoys , perplexed by his behaviour , were keeping well out of his way until they could think of some way of dealing with him . |
| 27 | They built this vast Gothic castle , a sort of Highland fortress , only gargantuan , and filled it with everything they could think of , to show off . |
| 28 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ said Bridget , ‘ they held him all weekend , and tried everything they could think of to make him confess . |
| 30 | They fought over everything they could think of to fight over they were really niggly ! |