Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [be] think of " in BNC.

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1 He clears his throat , which is suddenly somewhat congested , and reads : ‘ Whatever happens to me , I shall always be thinking of you and hoping that you will have green grass for your cattle . ’
2 She should n't be thinking of him now , not here , not like this .
3 That she might not be thinking of them , but simply indulging herself , is the only factor in the situation that would worry me at all . ’
4 But the ‘ ordinary ’ people in this case would be the members of the club itself , and we would probably be thinking of testing our hypotheses by interviewing a sample of the club members .
5 Pitch , of course , gets progressively softer as it is heated , and similarly , since the rocks of the mantle are also at high temperatures — the temperature in the earth increases downwards at a rate of about 30 degrees C per kilometre — they can also be thought of as being rather ‘ soft ’ .
6 Although sums of money are represented as decimal numbers , they can easily be thought of as pounds and pence , or pence alone : the idea of decimals can therefore be avoided .
7 He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that
8 The reading should always be for the -intrinsic interest or value of what is read … it should never be thought of as an exercise . "
9 If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ .
10 Circumstances and what may amount to encouragement by the victim may sometimes mitigate the offence and , particularly under such conditions , impulsive or specifically planned rape is no more than an offence — it can hardly be thought of as deviant in the true sense of the word .
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