Example sentences of "[be] think [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you 're thinking about a new car or a holiday ; a house deposit or a home improvement scheme ; a wedding or family celebration ; perhaps you are preparing for your retirement . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're thinking about the so-called ‘ miracle cures ’ of Sister Kenny ? ’ |
| 3 | But when you 're thinking about an morphological traits , shapes , characters and so on , what evidence we have — and it 's nothing like enough , it would be nice to have more — what evidence we have suggests that , as a matter of fact , the differences are not due to hopeful monsters . |
| 4 | Now it 's not John Major and it 's not Martin Brandon Bravo and it 's not the Sheriff although we 're thinking on the right lines there , and it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough and it certainly is n't Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence either . |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah , er , oh no I think you 're thinking of a different Olive |
| 6 | You 're thinking of the screaming figures ? |
| 7 | Oh , you 're thinking of the other night when I was so rude to you both at that dancey place . ’ |
| 8 | You know what I mean , they 're thinking of the working man there are n't |
| 9 | What you 're thinking of the pink stuff has the methanol in it ! |
| 10 | Erm you 're thinking of the Highclear Stud are n't you ? |
| 11 | However , these thoughts would only have been thought by a Christian audience of that time . |
| 12 | The ‘ blurb ’ before the main articles has consistently been thought by the British to be too ‘ general ’ and without sufficient specific meaning to merit much attention . |
| 13 | In particular , I 'm thinking about the fine filming which accompanies the song There 's A Coach Comin' In , as the carriage packed full of prostitutes speeds towards town . |
| 14 | I 'm thinking of the hired killer of Yatton solicitor 's wife , Shirley Rendell , a few years ago . |
| 15 | I 'm thinking of the other poor chaps who might not feel that they 're getting cut glass decanters . |
| 16 | I 'm thinking towards the eastern European countries , for example , where one is told , or has been led to believe they were aiming for classlessness and what 's happening th barriers are coming down and they 're heading towards our capitalist society as a |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | When you ask about the dangers of using peppermint oil , you may be thinking of the concentrated essential oils used in aromatherapy ( the massaging of the skin with oils or creams containing plant extracts to relieve tension ) which are very potent and should not be used undiluted . |
| 19 | But if his practical measures are anything to go by , he may be thinking of the Libyan nation , for he discourages international marriage not only with English or American persons , but with Algerians , Egyptians and Palestinians . |
| 20 | But the top men , the team leaders , will be thinking of the coming team time trial at Libourne . |
| 21 | Or they may be thinking about the unthinkable : independence for their tiny — but vastly more successful — China . |
| 22 | Sediments containing such radionuclides were thought by the nuclear scientists to sink to the bottom of the sea bed , and stay there . |
| 23 | There is another thing which I know you were thinking about a great deal , which all of us must think about . |
| 24 | I expect you were thinking about the virginal conception of Jesus which is described in the Gospels of Mathew and Luke . |
| 25 | I was in the army and you were thinking of a different country . |
| 26 | A newspaper report that the multi-millionaire Barclay brothers had built up a 3 per cent stake in Williams and were thinking of a full bid at 300p a share sent the price soaring 58p to 283p . |
| 27 | I am thinking of the current situation in Somalia and of events in eastern Europe . |
| 28 | Conversely , national issues which were serious or even explosive before 1914 have receded : I am thinking of the famous ‘ Macedonian Question ’ , the Ukraine , or even the demand for the restoration of historic Poland . |
| 29 | This critic may have been thinking of a well-known passage in one of the Nativity sermons in which Andrewes keeps up a series of puns in Hebrew , Latin and English for three pages on the word Emmanuel : ‘ If it be not Immanu-el , it will be Immanu-hell … . |
| 30 | Although Mill may have been thinking of the romantic poet speaking gloomily to himself , here Leapor holds out the prospect of good gossip , and the reader is set to overhear the conversation : |