Example sentences of "[verb] me thinking " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked her why he was n't married , and she did n't want me thinking there was anything wrong with him , so she told me . |
| 3 | And it got me thinking that there must be thousands of people up and down the country doing worthwhile things to protect our environment and wildlife who go unrecognised . |
| 4 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 5 | The door got me thinking . |
| 6 | The sight of another person 's suffering and sacrifice stopped me thinking so much about my own problems . |
| 7 | It 's really got me thinking and questioning my approach in the studio , actually . |
| 8 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
| 9 | It keeps me thinking and I know I 'm going to enjoy the different style . ’ |
| 10 | The rocks of the Bomb Circle usually get me thinking and this time was no exception , especially considering the way I 'd lain down inside them like some Christ or something , opened to the sky , dreaming of death . |
| 11 | That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Because you do n't stop me thinking . |
| 13 | Since reading Barbara 's letter it has set me thinking ! |
| 14 | And that started me thinking . |
| 15 | But it was ‘ Tusk ’ that started me thinking along the lines of trying to be true to what I think 's interesting and not necessarily just what people want to hear . ’ |
| 16 | That 's what started me thinking about it . ’ |
| 17 | And that started me thinking . |
| 18 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 19 | That cut our speed some and gave me thinking time , but the traffic seemed to consist entirely of black cabs and VW Golfs full of party-hoppers . |
| 20 | On a sea of evening light Páll Helgason steers his boat towards the sun , poking it between stacks and through arches , sometimes into gaps that leave me thinking I can touch the rock walls on either side . |
| 21 | What had started me thinking about the underground — or the informal sector — was spending a couple of years in Latin America . |
| 22 | She hung up , leaving me thinking that if she was n't actually a spy , she was wasted . |
| 23 | Myself and Parco Polo seeks meaning in what it does to us , and it left me thinking that the late Italo Calvino has a lot to answer for . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a sort of drug , travelling , ’ Minton wrote to a friend in July 1953 , ‘ which seems to prevent me thinking — I feel vaguely irresponsible and peer at historic monuments . |
| 25 | The incident set me thinking . |
| 26 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 27 | The job they had did n't interest me , but it set me thinking . |
| 28 | Colloquium yesterday by Steve Jones set me thinking . |
| 29 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 30 | She was the first pig I 'd ever met , and she set me thinking , and reading up on pigs . |