Example sentences of "[v-ing] to think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , where God is concerned we are attempting to think of that than which nothing greater can be thought , which is also beyond thought . |
| 2 | And he knew there had been something in connection with his wife he was going to think about that picture . |
| 3 | You were going to think about this one . |
| 4 | Alright then , and we 're sorting this out when she 's gone out , when it 's gone out , but we 're going to think about this eh doing things underhanded right ? |
| 5 | Rob was going to think about choral music for York Minster … |
| 6 | What the hell were they going to think of that at the school gates , any of the other parents or any of the teachers ? |
| 7 | People are already beginning to think of pre- and post-AIDS periods just as we in the seventies grew accustomed to thinking of pre- and post-gay liberation periods . |
| 8 | Some agricultural colleges are beginning to think about organic husbandry and small-scale farming but few have any staff experienced in these aspects and none yet provide full-time courses suitable for a smallholder . |
| 9 | It 's obviously far too early to be starting to think about Canadian prospects but , at the same time , it has to be realised that we are now probably little more than three years away from the '95 opening ceremonies , assuming a Southern Hemisphere location . |
| 10 | So this can be a comradely peloton , and amid their shared pain many will be starting to think of next year 's teams and contracts . |
| 11 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 12 | So hotels have to avoid unreliable entertainers , and we are having to think about standard contracts , not flexible agreements . |
| 13 | The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable . |
| 14 | I asked , desperately trying to think of great composers who have written great trumpet concertos . |
| 15 | I remember trying to think of all the troops who would line up behind me , and realizing that there was only Anne . |
| 16 | I was trying to think of all these things like she 's done like . |
| 17 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |
| 18 | An unaccustomed self-pity overtook him , sitting in the straw , and he went into a trance , thinking of all the ways he lost out , trying to think of one positive factor in his favour . |
| 19 | D' ya know I was trying to think of that footballer tha the other week with Colin . |
| 20 | Having set up an interview , Alex sat back , making notes , trying to think of other entrenched bastions of male privilege , circles from which women were excluded . |
| 21 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 22 | She wound down the window , trying to think of some way of putting things right . |
| 23 | I delayed switching the computer off while I racked my brain trying to think of some way of saving them , but there was none . |
| 24 | Now the I 'm just trying to think of some some of those pictures that are in there now there was one , it was that size or in a pair like that lovely looking pictures |
| 25 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |