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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not think " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I tried not to think about it , which is the only thing to do in such a situation . ’
2	‘ I tried not to think about it .
3	" I tried not to think of you either , " she said .
4	I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac .
5	Suppose , well , I say not thinking one evening , I nearly missed the bus this morning , I had to run like billy-o , sure as fate Aunt Annie would say , think yourself lucky you can run .
6	because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful .
7	I try not to think about Mr Jackson and that .
8	Now , I try not to think too much about those days .
9	I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring .
10	Although I know it 's a problem in the eyes of the public and the Health Service , I try not to think of it as a problem personally , y'know what I mean .
11	I try not to think what Andy might be doing to them .
12	But mostly I try not to think about him at all .
13	‘ Yes , but I try not to think of those days .
14	This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change .
15	I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution .
16	I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made .
17	I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast .
18	‘ I do not think identity cards would have changed things — I suspect they would not have deterred people from travelling without tickets . ’
19	Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met .
20	‘ I think we should join well before next summer , but I do not think … that the time to join is this week , ’ Sir Leon said .
21	He said : ‘ I think we should join well before next summer , but I do not think … that the time to join is this week . ’
22	we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable .
23	As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ .
24	I do not think mat is the best way of looking at it .
25	‘ I do not think any publisher has given any journalist that chance before in the United Kingdom . ’
26	Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything .
27	I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper .
28	I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already .
29	But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words .
30	I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems .