Example sentences of "thinking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Davis/Baker/Tear recording , made for Philips in 1977 , is so deservedly well-known and admired that anybody thinking about changing allegiances or buying another version in preference must be urged to think twice . |
| 3 | Well I think this is partly one of the reasons that as urologists we need to be thinking about changing gear . |
| 4 | It should make an interesting text for a graduate-level course in community ecology , help students to plan research and set any ecologist thinking about possible generalizations . |
| 5 | The hours rolled towards dawn and she sat alone , thinking about all she had learned from Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 6 | We wo n't actually make or do anything , but it will be really neat lying in the meadows thinking about all the money we are making on off-shore tax haven related business . |
| 7 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I was only thinking about all those prayers we say for the conversion of China . |
| 9 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |
| 10 | Still thinking ; thinking about all the times I 've seen people I know do something for revenge , or do anything vindictive or sneaky or smart or even threaten to . |
| 11 | I walked the four miles home to the forge , thinking about all I had seen . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose you 're thinking about all the gossip — about Riddle being the baby 's father ? ’ |
| 13 | No longer that terrible clattering of clogs in the street to wake her every morning and start her thinking about all those poor people and those ragged little children hurrying to the mill . |
| 14 | ‘ It helps me to stop thinking about all this . ’ |
| 15 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 16 | LEO You are bound to find yourself thinking about all sorts of future possibilities now ! |
| 17 | I was thinking about all the |
| 18 | So you run the risk that they are thinking about one thing while you are pursuing another ; |
| 19 | Manifestly you think you 're , you 're , you 're thinking about one school , whereas in reality you 're thinking about quite a different one . |
| 20 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 21 | Perhaps you can advise me how I can stop thinking about that horrible book . |
| 22 | She must remember on no account to go on thinking about that or she might let something slip . |
| 23 | It was thinking about that publisher that had done it . |
| 24 | I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare . |
| 25 | Roger 's face had flushed , and she knew he was thinking about that wallet . |
| 26 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
| 27 | She was n't really thinking about that . |
| 28 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |
| 29 | Enter Dick Hansen from Illinois who was still thinking about that P-40 he dreamed about as a child . |
| 30 | " Because you 're still thinking about that girl who works with beggars and ne'er-do-wells at Yelton , I suppose ! |