Example sentences of "try [not/n't] think [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie stared at the floor and tried not to think of all the things he might have done , or failed to do , to cause this latest upset . |
| 2 | He tried not to think of that other night , more than five years ago , when he and Ebenezer had walked this same path , on their way — or so they thought — to release Izzy Kleiber . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , but I try not to think of those days . |
| 4 | ‘ Try not to think about that . |
| 5 | Try not to think about these things . |
| 6 | Folly had been trying not to think about that particular angle of her revenge . |
| 7 | But while Howard sits there , trying not to think about those 97,000 piled corpses , he apparently sits there thinking about coffee . |