Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [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 She should n't be thinking of him now , not here , not like this .
6 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 . ’
7 ‘ When you 're surfing big Waimea , you ca n't be thinking about anything — except for the moment .
8 Something that 's going to take your attention , because while you 're thinking about your hobby you ca n't be thinking about work .
9 So you go off to this evening class , while you 're doing that , you ca n't be thinking about the problems at work , because you 've got to concentrate otherwise you 're not going to get it done .
10 Whatever it might be for you , but something that you 're going to have to be thinking about , and while you 're thinking about that you can not be thinking about work .
11 You can still be thinking about work .
12 There s no reason whatsoever we should n't be thinking in terms of the championship anyway .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ .
16 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 .
17 Again it may not be thought to be particularly helpful that God in God 's undifferentiated nature ( or indeed the Spirit in its rather vague nature ) are to be understood as ‘ female ’ , while ‘ divine energies ’ ( sic ) , that which is clearly differentiated and self-determining , is to be seen as ‘ male ’ .
18 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
19 Although a common form of procedure for research is being recommended here it should not be thought for one moment that a hard and fast programme is being suggested to which every research enquiry should conform .
20 The reading should always be for the -intrinsic interest or value of what is read … it should never be thought of as an exercise . "
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ .
24 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 .
25 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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