Example sentences of "[pers pn] was thinking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was thinking along the lines of a gentle 90-minute run … but gradually the women and the M60s and then even the M65s began to pass me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So obviously I was thinking along the same lines as him . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking along the lines of getting there today , sir , if you do n't mind . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was thinking along the lines of a family home when I bought this , ’ he said abruptly . |
| 5 | A twist to his lips , he added , ‘ I was thinking along the same lines myself when my father pre-empted me . ’ |
| 6 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 7 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 8 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
| 9 | I was thinking to myself that he would have blown most of it on horses and strong drink . |
| 10 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 11 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 12 | ‘ But I was thinking about Steinmark . |
| 13 | I was thinking about what a nice bloke he was . ’ |
| 14 | Alice Conway almost jumped back into her kitchen as her daughter swung round now and yelled at her , ‘ It may surprise you to know that I was thinking about you and Father and this house , and the business downstairs . |
| 15 | About twenty minutes later he looked at me and said , ‘ Well , I was thinking about advertising a job that looked something like this . ’ |
| 16 | For once I was not travelling along a public road and here I was thinking about falling and having a broken ankle and nobody knowing to look for me . |
| 17 | ‘ I was thinking about how you use your clipboard as chain-mail . ’ |
| 18 | I was thinking about certain techniques like the single-handed arpeggios on Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing . |
| 19 | ‘ But I was thinking about how we used to sing together . ’ |
| 20 | I was thinking about home , actually . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't know what I was thinking about . ’ |
| 22 | I went to see The Wild One many many years ago when I was thinking about becoming an actor and thinking maybe it was a bit of a poofy thing to do , and Marlon Brando was standing in front of this juke box and he had ‘ New York Rebels ’ on the back of his leather jacket and this girl came up and said , ‘ What are you rebelling against , Johnny ? ’ and he says ‘ What have you got ? ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's my man , I 'll do that . ’ |
| 23 | I was thinking about something else . |
| 24 | I was thinking about my Auntie Muriel . |
| 25 | I was thinking about the relative merits of a bottle or two of Ruddles from the fridge or a glass or two of Sancerre or even , in the circumstances , something stronger , when there was a knock on my door . |
| 26 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 27 | I was thinking about sending out the cavalry to look for you if you had n't shown up tonight . ’ |
| 28 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
| 29 | ‘ I was thinking about the twins , ’ protested Preston . |
| 30 | I was thinking about Mrs. Laura Channing who was married to an accountant , and Mrs. Barbara Porter who said she was married to a doctor of philosophy . |