Example sentences of "thinking [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But Jesus did acts of kindness on the Sabbath , ’ he replied , thinking to meet her objection on Biblical grounds . |
| 2 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 3 | Her daughter , Linda de Roulet , inherited the picture , never thinking to sell it until two events changed her mind . |
| 4 | No , that 's supposed to be what he 's thinking look he 's got little blobs coming from his head . |
| 5 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 6 | But too long , and Rab , thinking fuck it all , whatever happened , sat down and rolled a fag . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , breaking apart like a toppling chimneystack , its body collapsed and felled another , which threw up an arm as it went down , as if thinking to save itself by grabbing hold of one of its remaining upright companions . |
| 8 | You 've probably all been in situation where you seen people zigzag across the road because they think they 're being followed the ladies will do it because she thinks a bloke is following her and the men are probably thinking does she think I 'm following her ? |
| 9 | While he talked with Atkins , writes Walker , ‘ Norma and Dulcie were symbolically , sitting at the stern , neither of the men thinking to tell them of the course they were plotting . ’ |
| 10 | So we see ideas about the nature of communication interpreted in a reductive way , assimilated into preconceived ways of thinking to make them amenable to conventional pedagogic treatment . |
| 11 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |