Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who subscribe to them and are honoured by reference to them may be thought of with contempt by those for whom the underlife is the serious basis of social living . |
| 2 | Wondered what woman , if any , I should be thinking about in five years ' time . ’ |
| 3 | I know I should be thinking about taking her to a mother-and-toddler group so she can meet people and make friends , but something keeps putting me off . |
| 4 | ‘ Why , what did you think I might be thinking about ? ’ |
| 5 | By then I might be thinking straight . ’ |
| 6 | The message in the words sounded ominous to Joe 's ears , and he straightened up and said , ‘ Tell Harry I 'll be thinking of him and I hope he 'll be home soon . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be thinking of you , ’ he said . |
| 8 | If you get somebody putting six hundred pounds for holidays , I 'll be thinking mhm you know , they 're not going to be able to do a lot on six hundred pounds a year , but when I actually get to talk to them I find they 've got a caravan , and a friend who 's got a site in North er er in North Yorkshire . |
| 9 | I would never try on something revealing like a swimming costume in a communal changing room , because when I was bigger I 'd be thinking everyone would be looking at the bulgy bits thinking how fat I was ( well , this is what I thought after I found out what my friends had been saying ) , and now I would feel too self-conscious because other girls would be thinking how skinny I look . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , and that E chord should really be on the bridge pickup , but I could never get it and every once in a while I 'd be thinking , ‘ I 'm gon na try it … |
| 11 | I think if I were fourteen or fifteen years old looking towards leaving school , average ability , I 'd be thinking to myself ‘ Well , what 's the point of working at school ? |
| 12 | I would n't enjoy myself anyway , I expect , I 'd be thinking of you . |
| 13 | I 'm always sitting thinking if I had n't got them , I 'd be thinking now was it on the card I have n't got you know |
| 14 | IF I was an Australian I would be thinking very hard about it . |
| 15 | ‘ And you immediately assumed that you had outstayed your welcome and I would be thinking to myself , ‘ Mon Dieu , now I have to face that idiotic English girl . ’ |
| 16 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 17 | And this is why I think the approach that Harrogate would perhaps be thinking of and we ourselves would be thinking of if this is the way we wanted to go is simply to go out and get a site and get planning permission on it . |
| 18 | ‘ I shall be thinking all the time of poor Kelpie . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied , ‘ I shall be thinking of that poor man and his little boy all night . ’ |
| 20 | I will be thinking about this film all night . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I will be thinking of you all and wishing you continued good fortune with your worthwhile venture , ’ said Sharron , who was the star of a promotional video used to raise funds towards the pool reopening . |
| 22 | Perhaps I will be thought outspoken , but so often it is those people who have moved into the country that complain . |
| 23 | At the same time , the article is tainted by what seems to be a desire to inflict damage on Levi 's reputation , of a kind which may be thought to serve the ideological tendency of the magazine in which it appeared . |
| 24 | And there must be a serious question mark against the massive powers acquired by the holder of the office of Secretary of State , which may be thought less than healthy in a democracy normally dependent on a system of checks and balances . |
| 25 | It is tempting to point , as a common feature of enterprises such as these , to the fact that they are ‘ single-function ’ entities ( in contrast to central government and agencies of horizontal devolution which may be thought of as multi-function ) . |
| 26 | This sort of moral principle , which may be thought to have the backing of international Opinion , and therefore be part of the positive morality of the international community , can readily be dubbed part of natural law , that is , of binding rules of universal application , and at the same time regarded as general principles of international law . |
| 27 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 28 | It does not include problems which may be thought of as on the fringe of sexual considerations such as unmarried motherhood , neurotic guilt about sex or non-sexual marital dissonance , although all of these may in themselves stimulate sexual difficulty . |
| 29 | The same thing applies to concepts or ways of discussion which may be thought normal or " crude " according only to personal feeling . |
| 30 | The second , which may be thought of as the ‘ efficient markets ’ theory , is called the ‘ substitution hypothesis ’ . |