Example sentences of "thinking [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps you can advise me how I can stop thinking about that horrible book . |
| 3 | She must remember on no account to go on thinking about that or she might let something slip . |
| 4 | It was thinking about that publisher that had done it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Roger 's face had flushed , and she knew he was thinking about that wallet . |
| 7 | 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 … ’ |
| 8 | She was n't really thinking about that . |
| 9 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |
| 10 | Enter Dick Hansen from Illinois who was still thinking about that P-40 he dreamed about as a child . |
| 11 | " Because you 're still thinking about that girl who works with beggars and ne'er-do-wells at Yelton , I suppose ! |
| 12 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
| 13 | I 've stopped thinking about that part of the future , I 've stopped worrying about her . |
| 14 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 15 | You 're thinking about that one . |
| 16 | and while you 're thinking about that you forget all about everything else . |
| 17 | Right well forget about thinking about that for a moment I 'll look round where everyone else . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've long ago stopped thinking about that . ’ |
| 19 | I was thinking about that project and erm but it is total is totally separate . |
| 20 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 21 | As he waited , he could n't help thinking about that first night . |
| 22 | I was just thinking about that just now , whether |
| 23 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 24 | ‘ I was thinking about that today over lunch . |
| 25 | I kept thinking about that reception as I drove blissfully home . |
| 26 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 27 | She half turned to look at Curtis , raised her heavily bandaged hand and shuddered as she added , ‘ I get nightmares now , just thinking about that man and what he did to me . ’ |
| 28 | I was probably still thinking about that as I got back to Armstrong in Soho Square , which is why I reacted so slowly when the white Ford Capri screeched alongside Armstrong 's parking place and nosed into the kerb so I could n't move him . |
| 29 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 30 | He was thinking about that when the doorbell rang and he admitted Captain Jack Carter . |