Example sentences of "[be] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , because you 're thinking about other things . |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 're thinking of retiring , ’ David Knell informed me over coffee one morning . |
| 3 | For example , when you 're thinking of young children learning to read , teachers like parents to read to their children at home and look at books with them at home . |
| 4 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 5 | WH : ‘ We 're thinking of challenging Carter to a game , actually . ’ |
| 6 | The point I would like to make is that while we 're thinking of international relations , that we do bear in mind that United Kingdom is still a United Kingdom . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , ’ says Shelley wickedly , ‘ we 're holding a cocktail party in December and we 're thinking of inviting Prue 's partners . |
| 8 | Our range of mortgages is designed to suit all incomes and needs — so whether you 're buying your first home , you 're on the move or you 're thinking of switching mortgages — we can find you an excellent mortgage deal . |
| 9 | But if you 're thinking of driving , forget it . |
| 10 | you 're thinking of direct costs , but erm , Phil was going to ask Jeff if he would chair it , and also if he 'd be willing , to be sort of editor in chief , of Eurofile , so that was yesterday , and I have n't seen Phil since , do n't know what happened with that and went to him that it was a briefing meeting . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're thinking of little green men , ’ continued Joe . |
| 12 | Both companies are thought by western intelligence to be part of Iraq 's international arms-procurement network and both have links with Anees Wadi , a suspected Iraqi agent who was expelled from Britain last year . |
| 13 | The attitudinist calls statements which express attitudes rather than beliefs value statements and be thinks of ethical statements as a more or less vaguely delimited subclass of these . |
| 14 | Non-logical stimuli : the first step here is to list as many aspects as can be thought of connected with the problem situation and to consider a completely irrelevant , unconnected object and to see how many ways that the object could affect the situation . |
| 15 | There had to be thought before structured talk . |
| 16 | A way of understanding this difference may be to think of formal features as in some way built up in our minds from the black marks which form writing on the page , or from the speech sounds picked up by our ears , while contextual features are somewhere outside this physical realization of the language in the world , or pre-existing in the minds of the participants . |
| 17 | I 'm thinking about black people as well as Antigua and Great Britain and , lastly , myself . |
| 18 | Anyway , just at present I 'm thinking about disembodied laughter . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm thinking of polled cattle or dogs with very , very short muzzles or dwarf legs and so on . |
| 20 | Oh I 'm , I 'm thinking of Macro Macro wholesalers . |
| 21 | I 'm thinking of Extreme in particular . |
| 22 | I 'm thinking in particular about the end of the solo on Do n't Stop and the solo on The Chain , both from ‘ Rumours ’ . |
| 23 | I mean I think that it 's erm a good idea for members to see what firemen and I 'm thinking in particular really of fire fight fighters I should n't say firemen , fire fighters , we 've got ladies , erm , who are retained and can be at their du place of work one minute , and twenty minutes afterwards they 've got to face up to ho horrendous sights , erm , it must have a tr traumatic effect on them . |
| 24 | Well I think this is partly one of the reasons that as urologists we need to be thinking about changing gear . |
| 25 | ‘ It subtly reminds the client that they should be thinking about legal issues on a regular basis , ’ said . |
| 26 | You are more likely to be thinking about other things while you are driving along , like what you are going to do when you reach your destination . |
| 27 | She was meant to be thinking about happy things . |
| 28 | Little girls of ten should n't be thinking about dreary things like funerals . |
| 29 | Panamanian casualties , military and civilian , were thought to top 1,000 . |
| 30 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |