Example sentences of "i [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am thinking about my spectacles lying on the desk before me as I write . |
| 2 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 3 | Her other brother , Brian , 27 , added : ‘ All I am thinking about is my sister . |
| 4 | ‘ I am thinking about no one . ’ |
| 5 | I am thinking about the table that is |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I am thinking of doing a little more writing now , but talk of retirement is nonsense . ’ |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | ‘ I am thinking of someone else . |
| 11 | ‘ I am thinking of making a change up front . |
| 12 | I am thinking of Masaryk and , obviously , Havel ? |
| 13 | I am thinking of prostitution , pornography , the commercialisation of cultural values . |
| 14 | Yet , at best , this is unreliable , as when I am thinking of your beautiful wife while discussing with you the state of the nation . |
| 15 | However , fuel economy is poor and as I am planning to drive to Morocco next year I am thinking of fitting a Ford V6 3.0 litre or 2.8 litre engine . |
| 16 | I am thinking of things like transfer ratios or perhaps 900 x 16 tyres will fit 7.50 x 16 wheel rims . |
| 17 | I am thinking of swapping the 2.6 litre petrol engine in my 1969 IIa LWB Safari for a Perkins 4203 diesel . |
| 18 | I am thinking of buying a SWB Land Rover but am unsure which engine to have fitted for both performance and economy . |
| 19 | This is now starting to burn oil and I am thinking of changing the engine to a diesel , The reasons for a diesel engine would be greater fuel economy and cheaper fuel as well as greater torque . |
| 20 | I am thinking of fitting a York six cylinder diesel with Bosch injection equipment and multiheater head to my 1986 110 , non-turbo 2.5 diesel . |
| 21 | I am thinking of purchasing a new Ninety Diesel Turbo hard top , is it possible to have it converted to take a full canvas tilt and who would undertake such a conversion ? |
| 22 | I am thinking of all that walking again . |
| 23 | I am thinking of our annual Parish Picnic , when everybody comes — babies in prams , children , young couples , older folk of all ages . |
| 24 | I am thinking of reverse-flow undergravel filtration using a Fluval 303 or 403 , filled with ceramic prefilter , carbon , and foam block or filter wool . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is the case of the Scandinavian countries — I am thinking of Finland and Iceland in particular — though the prevailing liberal ideology in those parts makes it embarrassing to admit to this form of intolerance . |
| 27 | ‘ I am thinking of the children of Sarajevo , of Banja Luka , of the peoples of Bosnia , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I am thinking of going out there myself to try to sort this out . ’ |
| 29 | One Gothic tale I am thinking of in particular is the Grimm 's fairy tale called ‘ Fitcher 's Bird ’ which is the prototype for all the Bluebeard stories . |
| 30 | I am thinking of selling up even before I have started . |