Example sentences of "thinking of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he was thinking of his model , sometimes of the mixing of his pigments , his tone , his oils ; sometimes of the flesh itself and sometimes of the absorbent canvas . |
| 2 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |
| 3 | I am thinking of the death of Primo Levi , an autobiographer , and by certain standards an amateur ; of the threatened death of the novelist Salman Rushdie ; and of the discovery of the fascist sympathies formerly exhibited by the literary theorist Paul de Man . |
| 4 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 5 | ‘ I hear you 're thinking of retiring , ’ David Knell informed me over coffee one morning . |
| 6 | ‘ I am thinking of doing a little more writing now , but talk of retirement is nonsense . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm thinking of doing that ! ’ |
| 8 | I 'm still thinking of going into publishing . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Where are you thinking of going , love ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Where are you thinking of going ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ How much are you thinking of paying me ? ’ |
| 12 | I once made the mistake you 're thinking of making and I 've never got over it . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't worry , I was n't thinking of messing around with him . ’ |
| 14 | But do n't forget he may be thinking of messing around with you . ’ |
| 15 | one of my sections in the subdivision is thinking of declaring UDI [ unilateral declaration of independence ] from the Divisional Headquarters … as for Headquarters and the Force organizational structure , well that 's just a joke as far as these men are concerned . |
| 16 | The next stage is to go to the manufacturers of the machines you thinking of installing and get the plan dimensions of their products . |
| 17 | Unless you are thinking of doing La Demande , put away your chocks and Friends and just take about a dozen quick-draws . |
| 18 | If you are thinking of replacing an old garage door , consider all the options which have ‘ opened up ’ since you last fitted one , say specialists Cardale Doors . |
| 19 | I am thinking of unfortunate scholars in foreign universities who can not ‘ hold down their jobs ’ unless they repeatedly publish articles each of which must say , or seem to say , something new about some literary work … |
| 20 | Hugh Kenner is no doubt right to suppose that it was Pound who had been thinking of it . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm thinking of the sort of attitude that suggests the unemployed do too little to help themselves , that if only you have determination and drive you can get on in the world . ’ |
| 22 | No , I was thinking of a far worse fate Which can o'ertake you when you 're 28 . |
| 23 | The field is without the Open champion , the US Open champion and the US PGA champion but rumours that Mark McCormack was thinking of inviting another of his clients , Wayne Shelford , to tackle the Burma Road are exaggerated . |
| 24 | Investors who should really be thinking of making a move are those in National Savings Deposit Accounts which are paying only 10.75 per cent gross ( without deduction of tax ) . |
| 25 | My thoughts were interrupted by Jock saying very quietly , ‘ If you are thinking of getting back to H.Q , Piper , I advise you to piss off as soon as you can . ’ |
| 26 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 27 | The Roslavl' party cell is thinking of recruiting up to seventy-five soldiers from the town garrison in order to collect potatoes from the area as a tax in kind . |
| 28 | If Le Sacre du Printemps was important for the poem , significantly in 1924 he was thinking of a new ‘ strict form ’ of drama , akin to the Russian Ballet . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | A plane cabin tries to fool you with the same set-up , but suddenly it meets turbulence , bumps and jolts , and three hundred of you sit there thinking of the drop beneath . |