Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] think [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'm thinking about black people as well as Antigua and Great Britain and , lastly , myself . |
| 4 | Anyway , just at present I 'm thinking about disembodied laughter . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm thinking of polled cattle or dogs with very , very short muzzles or dwarf legs and so on . |
| 6 | I was thinking about black holes as I got into bed one night in 1970 , shortly after the birth of my daughter Lucy . |
| 7 | I was thinking about certain techniques like the single-handed arpeggios on Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing . |
| 8 | I was thinking of dried flowers and then I , and then I thought no , I think I 'll |
| 9 | The reason why this happens is that you are thinking about other issues at the time . |
| 10 | The sort of questions you might ask will vary according to circumstance , such as : before you join the scheme , if you are thinking of changing jobs , if you are hoping to retire early and so on . |
| 11 | For example , when you 're thinking of young children learning to read , teachers like parents to read to their children at home and look at books with them at home . |
| 12 | you 're thinking of direct costs , but erm , Phil was going to ask Jeff if he would chair it , and also if he 'd be willing , to be sort of editor in chief , of Eurofile , so that was yesterday , and I have n't seen Phil since , do n't know what happened with that and went to him that it was a briefing meeting . |
| 13 | Our range of mortgages is designed to suit all incomes and needs — so whether you 're buying your first home , you 're on the move or you 're thinking of switching mortgages — we can find you an excellent mortgage deal . |
| 14 | Yes , because you 're thinking about other things . |
| 15 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 16 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 17 | The point I would like to make is that while we 're thinking of international relations , that we do bear in mind that United Kingdom is still a United Kingdom . |
| 18 | WH : ‘ We 're thinking of challenging Carter to a game , actually . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In fact , ’ says Shelley wickedly , ‘ we 're holding a cocktail party in December and we 're thinking of inviting Prue 's partners . |
| 20 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 21 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 22 | It was thought in mediaeval times to have magic associations and was hung over doors on Midsummer 's Eve to ward off evil spirits . |
| 23 | Perhaps he was thinking of other things at the same time . |
| 24 | CHARLES HAD A lot of wine inside him as he drove along the Strand on his way back , but he was thinking with extraordinary clarity . |