Example sentences of "thinking that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember thinking that I wished they would . |
| 2 | really nice he 's thinking that I mean that , he could n't never lift the seat up . |
| 3 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 4 | I remember thinking that I knew what painting was about at last . ’ |
| 5 | No I was thinking that I 've seen her perhaps I was thinking , you know , you remind me of it . |
| 6 | As soon as I start thinking that I stop and I do n't make any more music like that . |
| 7 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 8 | Without really still thinking that I had any chance of success , I went back down to the Circle Line and journeyed on to Liverpool Street . |
| 9 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 10 | I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream . |
| 11 | You might be forgiven for thinking that I see an ideal speaker-hearer as someone who relies on everyone else to complete his conversational turns , never finishes a sentence , speaks very quickly and often with his mouth full , never answers questions , always repeats himself , says nothing without hedging , and invariably forgets what he wants to say — but who survives , if only by ending his utterance with a triumphant whatchamacallit . |
| 12 | I just phoned up Leeds for tickets for the Arse game on 24th August , and they tell me that ‘ Tickets will only be available for members ’ , and here 's me thinking that I do n't need to bother with a premier / membership card this year to get my tickets . |