Example sentences of "thinking it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't help thinking it 'll be nicer now , when Mother comes back . ’ |
| 2 | Yes , I was just thinking it 'll be hilarious . |
| 3 | Trouble was , Sidney decided to go back to get the sentry 's rifle , obviously thinking it might come in useful . |
| 4 | He was wary of it , thinking it might be living , but he saw it was just another machine . |
| 5 | At last she stepped over it and went down , half thinking it might snap off her leg in passing . |
| 6 | ‘ The schoolmaster looked out of the window across the square to the castle where he announced to the class that the flag was flying at half-mast , so he popped out to find out why , thinking it might have been dear old Queen Mary . |
| 7 | I was thinking it might , seriously , and we used to say hands up all those who have n't seen the sea ? |
| 8 | At one time a business proposition came up and , thinking it would help him kick his habit , I agreed to a joint overdraft . |
| 9 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 10 | When you get back to the Club Zorna Hotel , the action is still going on , whilst at the International Nightclub just a few hundred yards away , the night 's just beginning — and I went to Yugoslavia thinking it would be restful ! |
| 11 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 12 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 13 | I had promised thinking it would be easy to order everything in England and ship it out . |
| 14 | That idea I soon modified to incorporate a smaller actor , thinking it would be better if we lost the human size similarity altogether . |
| 15 | Mistakenly thinking it would do no harm to put her at her ease — she was a plain woman with the faintest smell of spirits on her breath even at ten o'clock in the morning — he had mentioned the interesting photographs hung on the stairway leading to the stalls . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I was n't thinking it would be him . ’ |
| 17 | I looked at this detail with some interest , thinking it would probably tell a psychologist a great deal about Victor Frankenstein 's thought processes during this period of his engagement . |
| 18 | ‘ We hardly knew each other , but I agreed , thinking it would be a short term thing , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Actually I was thinking it would be nice erm I have to make a team up with erm Wendy 's parents and we would do quite well with the joint knowledge of four of us . |
| 20 | I was just thinking it would be quite convenient would n't it ? |
| 21 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 22 | Boldwood took it quickly and opened it , thinking it could be from the sender of the valentine . |
| 23 | She did not waste time thinking it could be Oliver whose quiet movement she had sensed in the bedroom . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose Lord Wyatt won them , too ! ’ she said , thinking it could not possibly be so . |
| 25 | Well I 'm just thinking it could be three years cos I 'm thinking what I borrowed what did I borrow , fifteen hundred ? |
| 26 | He scrabbled for the switch , thinking it must somehow have clicked itself off . |
| 27 | So far removed from normal sense that when he rang the bell at Nutty 's house and her father came down in his dressing-gown thinking it must be the police , he did not understand the excitement . |
| 28 | I was most sceptical when reading all the letters , thinking it must be ‘ fixed ’ . |
| 29 | Thinking it must have been aimed at someone else , I glanced behind me . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't help thinking it must be huge to punch so big a hole in the star field . ’ |