Example sentences of "[not/n't] thinking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dorothy , you 're not thinking straight . |
| 2 | They are a sign of poor planning and of not thinking sufficiently far ahead , but they can be useful as an option , just as sideslipping is an extra skill which can prevent a serious overshoot and a broken glider . |
| 3 | This is caused by poor basic training and not thinking ahead . |
| 4 | I am not thinking primarily of the well-established learned journals , which have high editorial standards and a long queue of articles waiting to appear . |
| 5 | ‘ I felt high for about four days , not thinking about anything but caring for her . ’ |
| 6 | She just lay there , not thinking , or even feeling , anything . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're not thinking of starting work , are you ? ’ |
| 8 | But then comes a statement about Christ which seems to emanate not from a rational clever man trying to help us to understand things more clearly , but from a rhetorical trickster who is not thinking at all . |
| 9 | She 's surely not thinking of moving there , is she ? ’ |
| 10 | And yet he was , he said , preoccupied with Keynes and not thinking about sex at all . |
| 11 | This was probably due either to farmers intending to hand on their asset and therefore not thinking of it as one or to younger men trying to pay off a large loan ( they also did not want to think about it ! ) . |
| 12 | You 're not thinking of … of JOINING the army , are ye ? ’ |
| 13 | It is arguable that here Anselm is not thinking of God in terms very different from those of Kant , the severest critic of his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ ( at least in the form in which it was mediated to him by Descartes ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not thinking of a police scene-of-crime picture . |
| 15 | I got married not thinking about it one way or the other ; I just loved the girl . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not thinking of them . |
| 17 | One can hardly blame them but you can be sure that they are not thinking that those poor people in the audience must be feeling hungry — they simply want to increase their profits . |
| 18 | A commonplace fault among schedule designers , as mentioned earlier , is not thinking enough about what it is like to be on the receiving end of the questions . |
| 19 | I was not thinking of anything in particular . |
| 20 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not thinking of money . |
| 22 | Obviously I am not thinking of ‘ answers ’ as something necessarily conceptual or purely verbal , as if a Christian answer was a string of words beginning ‘ Christianity says that … . ’ |
| 23 | There does n't seem to be a moment that goes by when I 'm not thinking about food . |
| 24 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 25 | When I 'm drinking a glass of water , I 'm drinking a glass of water and not thinking about five other things at the same time . |
| 26 | I was not thinking about Suzy until later . |
| 27 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 28 | When we speak of ‘ culture ’ we are not thinking about high-brow music , or good table manners . |
| 29 | Not thinking much of Fife 's soldierly abilities , and judging him in need of a lesson for his crowning of the usurper , he and Keith had attacked Perth town , and found it surprisingly easy to take . |
| 30 | I admired him for his decision then , I admired him for not thinking being world champion was worth the risk , and I admire him still for maintaining a moral stance . |