Now you know how much I am obliged to your goodness, and it is but just that I should repay my debt of gratitude; think how I can serve you and depend on me.
When I was a child, I used often to think how nice it would be to live in a little house all by my own self--a house built high up in a tree, or far away in a forest, or halfway up a hillside so deliciously alone and independent.
I must tell you one thing, Ma'am,-you can't think how abominable he was!
You can't think how I've scolded; have not I, my Lord?
You can't think how oddly my head feels; full of powder and black pins, and a great cushion on the top of it.
And, indeed, it had puzzled me before to think how he could have so many kinds of work, and yet keep his hands so smooth and white as they were.
Think how nonsensical it would be to suppose that one who could make everything, and keep the whole going as He does, shouldn't be able to help forgetting.
So I walked home, hoping in my Saviour, and wondering to think how pleasant I had found it to be His poor servant to this people.
I am now covered with shame to think how, when the thing approached myself on that side, it swept away for the moment all my fine theories about the equality of men in Christ their Head.
My conscience was touched while listening to one of his sermons; and then, to think how I had leased him to preach upon a neighbouring plantation, just as a man would an ox to do a day's work!
As the last faint wail dies away, and the vehicle bearing its victim disappears in the distance, we think how sweet is liberty, how prone to injustice is man, how crushing of right are democracy's base practices.
Quoth the Patrician, "This is of towns the highwayman!
Without troubling himself to compassionate me, we both began to think how we could get back my purse; but we came to the conclusion that it would be impossible, as I had nothing more than my mere assertion to prove the case.
You can't think how grieved I am to hear all this; perhaps it's Emilie's presence that makes her so cold.
I had thus undertaken to regenerate the worthy Semiramis, and I began to think how I could carry out my undertaking without putting myself to shame.
Think how it would be if the people drained Takern, and changed the lake-bottom into fields!
He had also time to think howit would be with him afterward--if perchance he might not regret that he had not succoured her; or if people should some day learn of the meeting and that he had not tried to help her.
Think how many of these amusing things you would hear, if you could go with the wild geese through the whole country, all the way up to Lapland!
For my part', said the Priest, 'I can't think how it could ever happen to me to be made such a fool of by a fellow like that.
When I think how beautiful, how talented, how affectionate, and how pure they are, and in what a cruel position I have placed them, I have terrible writhings of the heart.
And only to think how I have been enjoying myself, when she was there all alone, with her heart breaking!
I have tried every way to think how I could manage, to sell my work.
And so am I,' said the schoolmaster; 'smiling to think how often we shall laugh in this same place.
Of course I have, dear Fred,' said Quilp, grinning to think howlittle he suspected what the real end was.
All manner of things,' replied Miss Cheggs, 'you can't think howout he has been speaking!
It breaks my heart to think how often we have seen them walking arm-in-arm together, and said they might be taken for a pair of lovers.
Dear me," she laughed, "let me think how I did intend it.
Dear me, when I think how long I’ve been resigned it certainly seems to me that you might do a little in the same line.
Think how he burst in here, forcing his way in, and taking possession of the house.
And then, think how he came forcing himself upon us when we were driving.
Think how infernally we've been humbugged by fate.
If someone who had a right to dictate to me said, 'Philip, do this,' then Philip would immediately begin to think how much he would rather do the other thing.
She smiled sometimes to think how no one in the office knew about it, wondered what they would think if they knew.
And all the while there were before him visions of the boy who sat in the cramped cell with the volume of a favourite poet before him, trying to think howit would seem to be out under the stars.
Then I began to think how I should get back, on which side must I go to find the cars--where was I, literally.
Think how hard it is for me always to be disappointing you.
I blush again to think howmuch I pained him, and how silently he bore it all.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "think how" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
