Example sentences of "thinking at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | More likely than not , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 3 | That would n't help her thinking at all , and was n't that why she was here ? |
| 4 | ‘ I was n't — thinking at all — ’ |
| 5 | He was n't thinking at all , just breathing . |
| 6 | She was n't thinking at all ; hands preoccupied with textures , grainy soil and rough brick , smooth stone , slimy wetness of the odd slug or worm . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not thinking at all — not for the minute , ’ replied Morse loftily . |
| 8 | When five o'clock came and Jimmy began to tidy his desk , she was not thinking at all kindly about her employer . |
| 9 | In fact , as she clung to him while they shared another kiss , and then another , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not Superman , my dear , ’ he made her bruised chin immediately better with that warm-sounding ‘ my dear , ’ ‘ so what else could I do — and I own that I was n't thinking at all too clearly — but appeal to the pride I 'd seen in you ? ’ |
| 11 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 12 | I hired a lovely secretary called Cats to help me cope with the mail , thinking at first of compiling a form letter , but they all merit a personal reply , so from 10 a.m. between shows until 10 p.m . |
| 13 | Thinking at first that her full nimble strength |
| 14 | You could be forgiven for thinking at first that Quick Help for WordPerfect has very few advantages over the help already supplied with WordPerfect . |
| 15 | The reader may be forgiven for thinking at this stage that , given the weaknesses in much project work , the solution would be to abandon it altogether . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , there are certain major figures who stand behind curriculum thinking at both levels . |
| 17 | So you 're sort of thinking at different levels . |