Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | You may now be thinking about what sorts of jobs you could do if you score high in any of the areas that we 've mentioned . |
| 4 | You should clearly be thinking about weaknesses in control : wastage , perhaps , or even pilferage . |
| 5 | You can still be thinking about work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even though they may already be thinking about their appearance , and becoming fashion-conscious , on many occasions all this is forgotten and , in running , dancing or laughing , they revert to a natural ease through which a certain innocence shines . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | The reading should always be for the -intrinsic interest or value of what is read … it should never be thought of as an exercise . " |
| 12 | It might additionally be thought to be undesirable that trivial assaults have to be prosecuted with an offence carrying the heavy maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 13 | He had been able to appear " normal " because he was abnormal , he was an outsider , he was mad , he saw and desired normality with a piercing vision of what it might ideally be thought to be . |
| 14 | If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ . |
| 15 | Even if my aunt had been mentally lost to Uncle Félix years ago , as the mater said , he 'd hardly be thinking about marriage to another woman at such a time . |
| 16 | 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 . |