All I needed was to keep from thinking, now, until the time came to do it.
That was the thought she'd been trying to keep from thinking.
He walked the whole hour, trying to keep from thinking.
She was talking too fast, anything to keep from thinking about what she'd done.
Anything to keep from thinking about what he was seeing.
It also helped keep her from thinking too hard about anything.
They had, each of them, served to keep us from thinking about the job at hand.
I lay down on the bed and tried to keep from thinking.
Getting out of there also kept him from thinking about how he meant it, which was probably just as well.
Some- thing to keep her from thinking about the past.