Example sentences of "[be] think of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear you 're thinking of retiring , ’ David Knell informed me over coffee one morning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | WH : ‘ We 're thinking of challenging Carter to a game , actually . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , ’ says Shelley wickedly , ‘ we 're holding a cocktail party in December and we 're thinking of inviting Prue 's partners . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But if you 're thinking of driving , forget it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're thinking of little green men , ’ continued Joe . |
| 11 | You 're thinking of another property . |
| 12 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 13 | The attitudinist calls statements which express attitudes rather than beliefs value statements and be thinks of ethical statements as a more or less vaguely delimited subclass of these . |
| 14 | He believed that the creatures inside the Grail Castle must not breed , for it was not to be thought of that the nightmare perpetuated by the sorcerers should be passed on . |
| 15 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 16 | Non-logical stimuli : the first step here is to list as many aspects as can be thought of connected with the problem situation and to consider a completely irrelevant , unconnected object and to see how many ways that the object could affect the situation . |
| 17 | Whatever may be thought of this — I have softened it in translation — there can be no denying its intense urgency and power . |
| 18 | A clue to confirmation would be to think of any recent accident in this regard . |
| 19 | A way of understanding this difference may be to think of formal features as in some way built up in our minds from the black marks which form writing on the page , or from the speech sounds picked up by our ears , while contextual features are somewhere outside this physical realization of the language in the world , or pre-existing in the minds of the participants . |
| 20 | Whilst I 'm thinking of that notice the way I into the middle of the plate . |
| 21 | I 'm thinking of polled cattle or dogs with very , very short muzzles or dwarf legs and so on . |
| 22 | Oh I 'm , I 'm thinking of Macro Macro wholesalers . |
| 23 | It can be I know , but I mean erm , I 'm thinking of some of my electorate , and I have n't actually had the opportunity to ask them . |
| 24 | I 'm thinking of either three pounds a ticket you 're getting close to the price of a special chauffeur . |
| 25 | I 'm thinking of Extreme in particular . |
| 26 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 27 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied , ‘ I shall be thinking of that poor man and his little boy all night . ’ |
| 28 | We will be thinking of that new life later in this communion service ; we pray ‘ that we may evermore dwell in him and he in us . ’ |
| 29 | It looks as if there is a walk down there but we 've never been on it but tell you where you may be thinking of , you may be thinking of that walk that goes towards the erm adventure park at the other side of Buckfastleigh . |
| 30 | Certainly , the other birds in Delhi seemed to be thinking of little else . |