Example sentences of "not [vb infin] think that " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It does not include thinking that something is probably true , a state of mind which may be part of " believing " in ordinary language . |
| 2 | What is significant is that the tribunal did not appear to think that the reason for the dismissal related to ‘ the conduct of the employee ’ . |
| 3 | They do not like to think that such a brutal murder could be committed by a Scouser , but the more they think about it the more they believe that it was . |
| 4 | ‘ Art is a rum business ’ , thought Turner , and the attentive reader of a book about artists called Born under Saturn can not avoid thinking that artists are unpredictable while reading through its sections on misers , criminals , celibates , debauchees , suicides , melancholics and eccentrics . |
| 5 | She could not avoid thinking that he , the last friend she had , had lost interest in supporting her , and was about to desert her . |
| 6 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |
| 7 | And I 'm going to make a suggestion to my Noble friend Lord he has heard all the erm views which are critical of the Government 's approach and I would not have thought that he had much hope in the division lobby as quite frankly . |
| 8 | Such a man may be delighted to become a father yet he will not wish to think that he is depriving his partner of her career — even temporarily . |
| 9 | And even with a larger army , the Saudis do not seem to think that they would be able to protect themselves . |
| 10 | She could not bear to think that he had taken all that pure wrathful zeal into marketing or insurance broking . |
| 11 | As I rode out of town , past the railway station and its ‘ Welcome to Prestatyn ’ message , to alighting holidaymakers , I could not help thinking that they certainly were . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It is a foolish idea , but one can not help thinking that the mortal remains can still feel when the immortal soul is gone . |
| 14 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 15 | Life as seen from the platform at Paddington is most varied and one can not help thinking that an official who spends most of his time there must gain a vast knowledge of human nature … |
| 16 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 17 | Although this only added to Liza 's frustration , she could not help thinking that the wife to whom he had referred who , unaccountably , had elected to remain in Scotland helping her parents on their estate , deserved to be deceived . |
| 18 | He could not help thinking that Eleanor Fuller might have had something to do with the mischief-making . |
| 19 | She had been instrumental in putting him in touch with Liza although , as things had turned out , he could not help thinking that it might have been better if he had never bumped into her that day in Piccadilly . |
| 20 | I can not help thinking that the booby who so completely misses the point of the question is often actuated by some hidden ( and mistaken ) motive of self-preservation . |
| 21 | I could not help thinking that something beside mere chance was at work here , showing me the way . |
| 22 | But one can not help thinking that a far greater contribution to the preservation of the World 's rain forests would be made if companies could be persuaded to make their annual brochures less glossy and to print them on re-cycled paper . |
| 23 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |