Example sentences of "thinking [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had spent so many hours last night thinking about a pathetic , grief-stricken Harriet Shakespeare that this small , tough woman had taken her by surprise , almost annoyed her . |
| 2 | I ca n't help thinking about a hundred films and plays , where the couple smoke afterwards . |
| 3 | Reflective meditation , on the other hand , involves thinking about a definite subject , theme , thought or word . |
| 4 | There is another thing which I know you were thinking about a great deal , which all of us must think about . |
| 5 | The Commission 's thinking about a wider European organisation was set out yesterday by its vice-president , Mr Frans Andriessen , in a report about the proposed European economic space with Efta in which capital , people , trade , and services would move freely . |
| 6 | Perhaps you 're thinking about a new car or a holiday ; a house deposit or a home improvement scheme ; a wedding or family celebration ; perhaps you are preparing for your retirement . |
| 7 | Mind you , Ann , I suppose that 's why Pat got thinking about a Tory er vote . |
| 8 | No , she was n't thinking , well she was n't exactly thinking about a Tory vote . |
| 9 | ‘ I used to lie on my bed all day thinking about every bloody meal I 'd ever had in my life . |
| 10 | Chapter 12 is devoted entirely to thinking about the causal issues at stake . |
| 11 | She caught her breath , her palms damp just thinking about the powerful surges of emotion she 'd felt in his arms . |
| 12 | When thinking about the bereaved , this is the sort of network of family and friends it becomes even more crucial to identify and contact . |
| 13 | Fortunately , when I did we maintained a perfect climbing attitude , I completed my mission , during which I spent sometime thinking about the young airman who had done the daily inspection of the instruments , and had left the auto pilot engaged . |
| 14 | Comparative sociology is supposed to be the attempt to generate universal propositions on the basis of systematic comparisons of a variety of different societies , and so it might have been expected to stimulate thinking about the global system . |
| 15 | Thinking about the various stages you go through and then once you 've reached the level of department managers at , on a lot of issues you tend to be at this stage but it 's important to remember that a number of your staff may be down here somewhere . |
| 16 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 17 | They have been thinking about the long-term future and have concluded that it will be very difficult to impose nuclear weapons on a population that is generally opposed to them . |
| 18 | Balmer had been thinking about the spectral lines from hydrogen . |
| 19 | The same point can be made more formally by thinking about the Schrödinger equation . |
| 20 | I 've prescribed steroids freely in the past without thinking about the immunosuppressant effect . |
| 21 | I expect you were thinking about the virginal conception of Jesus which is described in the Gospels of Mathew and Luke . |
| 22 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |
| 23 | It is not too soon for mainframe customers to start thinking about the new course on which IBM will soon embark . |
| 24 | The others were too bothered worrying about themselves and their chances to spend time thinking about the new arrival from England . |
| 25 | Forward planning ( matching load forecasts and planned capacity , thinking about the future regional spread of power stations ) , was , of course , necessary , but was in practice merely a part time function of the ex-CEB engineers in charge of system operation . |
| 26 | During the first few weeks in a Home everyone concerned with the resident , and of course the resident too , will be thinking about the best care for the person . |
| 27 | erm cos if you start thinking about the four-sided ones there 's the square which everybody knows about which is again is the regular polygon is n't it ? |
| 28 | So preoccupied was she thinking about the unseemly position of her raised buttocks , that she did n't see the whip rise to crack across her beleathered fundament . |
| 29 | I was n't thinking about the hundred ; it 's great batting with Jack because he 's so positive . |
| 30 | Whatever hardware you choose , it is essential that it is securely fixed , and it is worth thinking about the actual fixing point at your initial planning stage . |