Example sentences of "thinking of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |
| 2 | ‘ I was thinking of a general problem , ’ he said later , |
| 3 | A newspaper report that the multi-millionaire Barclay brothers had built up a 3 per cent stake in Williams and were thinking of a full bid at 300p a share sent the price soaring 58p to 283p . |
| 4 | She was thinking of a bleak room in a small block of flats in Streatham , the curtains drawn to keep in the heat , the walls weighed down with the knick-knacks of a happy life : the flat she had been brought up in . |
| 5 | What a guide IF YOU are thinking of a driving holiday in France this year it is well worth being able to parle a little motoring Francaise and the AA , along the National Tyre and Autocare have come up with ways of helping to make yourself understood . |
| 6 | You thinking of a special occasion ? |
| 7 | You are now thinking of a grey elephant in Denmark . |
| 8 | Erm that 's thinking of a steady speed . |
| 9 | Thus , in ‘ Spoonful ’ the ‘ corporeal ’ meanings of rock 'n' roll rhythms , without being destroyed , are shifted by the complex rhythmic overlays , the instrumental technique , the lyrics and so on , while in ‘ Strawberry Fields ’ and ‘ Astronomy Do mine ’ , the principle of extended forms is reworked , still having an implication of ‘ thinking ’ , but now thinking of a different kind from that suggested by , say , Beethoven . |
| 10 | I was in the army and you were thinking of a different country . |
| 11 | Yeah , yeah , er , oh no I think you 're thinking of a different Olive |
| 12 | I even knew that if we talked about her past and all her life I might begin to like her , but I was thinking of a different countryside and different cattle and worrying about the oxen who ploughed the fields and turned the water wheels . |
| 13 | When they think of sexual power , they 're still thinking of a single reality situation . |
| 14 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 15 | He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that |
| 16 | This critic may have been thinking of a well-known passage in one of the Nativity sermons in which Andrewes keeps up a series of puns in Hebrew , Latin and English for three pages on the word Emmanuel : ‘ If it be not Immanu-el , it will be Immanu-hell … . |