Example sentences of "have [be] think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Mr Sutherland can 've been thinking of , I do n't know . |
| 2 | Mr Tsongas has been thinking of reviving his campaign . |
| 3 | Woosnam has been thinking of changing to a ‘ cack-handed ’ grip on the greens left hand below right because his putting has been so poor in recent weeks . |
| 4 | Oral sex , although mentioned in literature and depicted in art spanning millennia , has been thought of and described by many people as a perversion of sexual practice . |
| 5 | — Although anorexia nervosa has been thought of as developing in the context of a ‘ perfect childhood ’ , there is some evidence that psychological trauma may predispose to the disorder . |
| 6 | One approach to the problem has been to think of the world as God 's body . |
| 7 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 8 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 9 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 10 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 13 | It was him she must have been thinking of . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 17 | Tolkien must have been thinking of Njorthr the sea-god and Skathi , daughter of the mountain-giant , in Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . |
| 18 | What could you have been thinking of , you bad man ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I may have been thinking of using the money saved from the mortgage payments on a new telly or something , but not now . ’ |
| 20 | 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 … . |
| 21 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |
| 22 | Edward may well have been thinking of exploiting his Gascon possessions militarily , as well as financially , and the frequent references to military service in the Recogniciones were to be put to good use . |
| 23 | She must have been thinking of Steven ( bridegroom 's name ) . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Could she have been thinking of her real brother ? ’ |
| 26 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 29 | It would have been thought of as demeaning their authority to have to explain their actions . |
| 30 | The well-planned research will not present difficulties at the analysis stage , since the purpose of the answers will have been thought of in advance , and all the analysis really does is to fill in the details . |