Example sentences of "[pn reflx] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could barely hear ourselves think . |
| 2 | Come on , it 's January , the month of optimism , and we might as well let ourselves think so . |
| 3 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |
| 4 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 5 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 6 | If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field . |
| 7 | ‘ There are a lot of other things we can do to stop ourselves thinking about her ! |
| 8 | The runner himself thinks not . |
| 9 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 10 | Admittedly he has some reservations even about free-range farming such as the need for castration , transportation and slaughtering techniques but , as Francis and Norman point out ( 1978 : 516 ) , since Singer himself thinks that much of this suffering could be eliminated , it is simply a matter of working to bring these improvements about . |
| 11 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 12 | He is dishonest in the way he makes a light-hearted , open contract with Antonio , which Antonio himself thinks is a joke . |
| 13 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 14 | This , however , he did n't realise until later when he let himself think about the meeting and how , after the first keen glance , she looked past him as if he were n't there , to greet Mick with ‘ Hello . |
| 15 | It is not enough for the defendant to show that he was aware of the contents of what he was distributing or publishing , but did not himself think that it was insulting if the jury or magistrate should come to the conclusion that he suspected or had grounds to suspect otherwise . |
| 16 | He did not let himself think how this man had killed Billy Egan , nor the ferocity he had shown . |
| 17 | Tolkien himself thought that this bright ray was the Old English word far Venus , here applied to John the Baptist , herald of the Christ . |
| 18 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 19 | This does not mean that he himself thought a trust the ideal way to realize his intentions . |
| 20 | Roy Jenkins himself thought his friend Hugh Gaitskell was fighting on the wrong ground , and ought to have concentrated on amending not the party 's dogma , but its working constitution , ‘ so as , for example , to make the National Executive Committee less the creature of the trade unions and more that of the Parliamentary Labour Party ’ . |
| 21 | Stevenson himself thought that it was only in virtue of a descriptive meaning , which ethical sentences typically had as well as their emotive meaning , that they could function in this sort of context . |
| 22 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 23 | A fine example of Egyptian art of the 18th Dynasty , Carter himself thought this piece important and drew attention to it in the catalogue that he compiled for the Amherst sale . |
| 24 | Freud himself thought that some of this work was nearer to myth than to natural science . |
| 25 | He himself thought The Confidential Clerk to be his most profound play , but it is difficult now to see this . |
| 26 | Lord Gardiner himself thought that political views ought not to affect judicial appointments at all , and he pursued this policy during his period of office as Lord Chancellor ( 1964 ) . |
| 27 | Asked to comment on the Independent 's report that Libyan terrorists had put the bomb aboard Flight 103 by means of an unaccompanied bag sent from Malta , Aviv himself thought it was yet another attempt to distract attention from the truth . |
| 28 | This powerfully confirmed the way in which Tolkien had been accustoming himself to think about the world ever since he grew to manhood . |
| 29 | Neither Mr Bush nor James Baker , his secretary of state ( who talks about Lithuania and Latvia with the visible enthusiasm of someone who has just sucked a lemon ) , can yet bring himself to think anything but the best of Mr Gorbachev , so helpful last year in Europe , so kind this year in the Gulf . |
| 30 | He commanded himself to think . |