Example sentences of "i [be] think [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 2 | From an early age Gimson 's interest in buildings was obsessive ; as a young man he was quoted as saying ‘ I am thinking of architecture all the time I am awake . ’ |
| 3 | This is the case of the Scandinavian countries — I am thinking of Finland and Iceland in particular — though the prevailing liberal ideology in those parts makes it embarrassing to admit to this form of intolerance . |
| 4 | I am thinking of things like transfer ratios or perhaps 900 x 16 tyres will fit 7.50 x 16 wheel rims . |
| 5 | I am thinking of General Sir John MacMillan and my distinguished constituent , General Sir David Young , with whom the Secretary of State has had many contacts in his present and previous responsibilities . |
| 6 | I am thinking of Xtreegold for file management , wordprocessors that can split screen and pull text from one piece of work to another and finally Windows , the ultimate hop to and go to and transfer stuff to the clipboard and elsewhere too . |
| 7 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 8 | I am thinking of Masaryk and , obviously , Havel ? |
| 9 | I am thinking of prostitution , pornography , the commercialisation of cultural values . |
| 10 | I am thinking of Diefenbachia in particular due to its common name of Dumb Cane . |
| 11 | I have suggested that we use Maa with subtitles ( I am thinking of Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans ) . |
| 12 | Rather , I am thinking of access to public data bases ( such as Prestel , the Times Network System , and NERIS , this last being a data base of worksheets and such ) ; here too come electronic mail and other forms of electronic communication , such as computer conferring , between departments in different areas or even different countries . |
| 13 | I am thinking of Amnesty International and the Churches . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm thinking about Tony ! |
| 15 | I 'm thinking about Tony . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm thinking of Timothy Jordan , a strange little man , a widower — ’ |
| 17 | Gwyllam oh no I 'm thinking of Peter . |
| 18 | Now , Michael Bolton was from my town , Newhaven , and this guy I knew just knew him , and he says , ‘ Michael , I got this kid I 'm thinking of managing ; tell me what you think of him . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm thinking of Italy here primarily . |
| 20 | I 'm thinking of London now and then I 'll think of Barcelona . |
| 21 | I 'm thinking of Omi ! ’ he urged , in one of the most improbable remarks he had ever made . |
| 22 | No , I know what I 'm thinking of , I 'm , if ever , I 'm thinking of revision week , cos that was a week , we was n't it ? |
| 23 | Well I think I feel a bit ambivalent on this point because and it 's quite possible I was smiling because I 'm thinking of parts of the report where a huge number of women say that they just deal with this on their own terms , and of course they do . |
| 24 | Well I 'm thinking of conversations , you know ? |
| 25 | I 'm thinking of Ellen Burstyn of Alice Does n't Live Here Any More , Louise Fletcher of One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest and Cloris Leachman of almost anything . |
| 26 | Erm I 'm thinking of atmosphere . |
| 27 | Oh I 'm thinking of Rainbow why am I thinking of Rainbow , is that Co-Op as well ? |
| 28 | I think we need I accept I think we need to look at certain areas we need to look at the entrance I mean if we were doing the entrance again we would have electric doors on what like they 've got on the Harvey Centre so you do n't have to fight your way in I 'm thinking of doors like this we 'll do that . |
| 29 | I need something for that other tub now , I 'm thinking of lobelia around the edge . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've done the Tower of London , and Nelson 's Column — that was hard , very hard , because of the balance , you see — and I 'm thinking of doing Westminster Abbey . |