Example sentences of "[vb infin] thinking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your long-term strategy will need thinking through according to your own circumstances . |
| 2 | Borders at the edge of the garden are usually fairly narrow ; fences and walls at the back of a border may need thinking about . |
| 3 | To a certain extent the pamphlet states the obvious , but it does at least focus thinking in a formal manner to the issue of 1992 . |
| 4 | It does not include thinking that something is probably true , a state of mind which may be part of " believing " in ordinary language . |
| 5 | There is no learning without content , and the National Curriculum helps formulate thinking about content choice , something the post-Plowden primary tradition has fought shy of . |
| 6 | Housework is such fragmented work that almost never does the housewife report thinking about the task in hand . |
| 7 | Establishing what events and transactions have caused the minority interests to change in a particular situation would entail thinking in broad financial accounting terms ( something that the current PE 2 Financial Accounting 2 examiner believes many candidates are reluctant to do ) . |
| 8 | This is not a government which likes to ask fundamental questions , nor does it like thinking on its feet and making strategic policy decisions almost overnight . |
| 9 | Sure , right after he 'd made the captain of the vital supplies ship Antares promise never to talk about Heaven 's Gate — he did n't like thinking about how he 'd done that — he 'd called Magrit over a scrambled beam . |
| 10 | They do n't like thinking about them . |
| 11 | We should keep thinking about this … the politics of the situation can hardly be ignored as the personal is the political , especially for women in Scotland . |
| 12 | Why do I keep thinking about Maurice . |
| 13 | I can keep thinking it 's not happened . |
| 14 | And you 'll keep thinking of extra little bits he ah there 's another bit can go in there . |
| 15 | which is something they get to rely on and I should keep thinking , that 's a hell of a for them because he 's never in all our married life washed a sock |
| 16 | Back at the scene of the burglary , I can remember thinking next , ‘ Oh well , I suppose I can re-wrap some of the parcels that have just been torn open ; I suppose I could use cash instead for some of the presents that have gone ; there is some way that I can cope with this . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I can remember thinking : that 's what it 's all about : big waves . ’ |
| 18 | There was a time when she could remember thinking it was a very nice room and that she was lucky to have a carpet on the floor and not just lino . |
| 19 | I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ . |
| 20 | " We lived a very spartan life , " says Eva , " but I ca n't ever remember thinking other kids had a lot , and we had n't . |
| 21 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't stop thinking about her and wondering what happened . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps you can advise me how I can stop thinking about that horrible book . |
| 24 | The famous sequence where the heroine can not stop thinking about the blood-stained knife , and keeps overhearing the word ‘ knife ’ in her father 's newsagent 's shop , is also an unparalleled use of sound technique . |
| 25 | Not that she could entirely stop thinking about Joss Barnet . |
| 26 | They clapped , danced and sang along to what has now become their anthem , Fleetwood Mac 's Do n't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow . |
| 27 | They might have killed me , that 's what I could n't stop thinking about . |
| 28 | He wished Louise Butler would come back home and be safe , then he could stop thinking about her . |
| 29 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 30 | But although I was happy there were two questions I could n't stop thinking about . |