Example sentences of "have be think [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |
| 2 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |
| 3 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 4 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 5 | However , she must also have been thinking of Annabelle ( bride 's name ) when she added , ‘ She was of course only too good for him : but as nobody minds what is too good for them , he was very steadily earnest in pursuit of the blessing . ’ |
| 6 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 7 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 8 | Tolkien must have been thinking of Njorthr the sea-god and Skathi , daughter of the mountain-giant , in Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . |
| 9 | She must have been thinking of Steven ( bridegroom 's name ) . |
| 10 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 11 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 12 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 13 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |
| 14 | She had been thinking of Mark and she had felt cold and lonely , so lonely … |
| 15 | She had been thinking of Jennifer , but she had n't wanted to say as much in front of David . |
| 16 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 17 | Ianthe , who had been thinking in terms of daffodils and lemon barley water , had not seen herself being so practical . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been thinking about Simon , ’ he said , as he began to eat , ‘ and I 'd be grateful if you could fill me in on a few things . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been thinking about Sam in the same way as Maurice and Beatrix recently . |
| 20 | I 've been thinking about Sophie . |
| 21 | I 've been thinking about Wilko 's choice of subs ( as well as the starters ) he seems to pick players for the bench one week and then not in the squad for the next ( e.g Strandli , Forrester , Ray Wallace ) Hopefully he will play Rocky tonight . |
| 22 | ‘ Listen , I 've been thinking about Chris 's work . |
| 23 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
| 24 | I 've been thinking about convert these speakers this time |
| 25 | I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’ |
| 27 | So you can , what what I 'm thinking of now is not so much , I 've been thinking of stuff that you have done , and that if you sort of spend a little bit of , not much time , maybe ten minutes on each topic , just having a little look at it and finding a problem , this is the sort of problem I was doing a month or two ago , can I do this one ? |
| 28 | So tidy minds in the West have been thinking of ways to keep the process under control . |
| 29 | Axelrod 's programs are an excellent model for the way we , throughout the book , have been thinking of animals and plants , and indeed of genes . |