Example sentences of "[verb] think [pron] have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if we 'd have worried about that if we 'd thought he 'd done a bunk . |
| 2 | The Spartans subsequently felt guilt at having started the war : there is a revealing sentence in Thucydides ( vii.18 ) which says that they came to think they had lost the war of 431–421 because ‘ they themselves had sinned ’ when the Thebans attacked Plataia when the ‘ libations ’ were still in force . |
| 3 | Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel . |
| 4 | that 's the one so they seem to think we 've got a good case so |
| 5 | ‘ I like to think I 've achieved the former , but I ca n't get promotion in five months . ’ |
| 6 | I like to think I 've got the balance right . ’ |
| 7 | So backers latching on to John Dunlop 's Jazeel on his debut at Doncaster last month must have thought they had discovered a goldmine . |
| 8 | That hard-fought win might have been deemed enough for the season , but his French owner was keen to run her little battler ( bred in France ) in the top French jumping event — in which he had finished second three years earlier — and so three months after the Gold Cup , when he might have thought himself to have earned a summer holiday , Mandarin was despatched to Paris . |
| 9 | Anyone would have thought I 'd lowered the resale value of the van or something . |
| 10 | You 'd have thought he 'd seen a ghost ! — He hopped it , then . |
| 11 | the lawyer , the Admiralty lawyer seems to think they 've got a good case |
| 12 | I would n't want to think I 've found every room in the house.I enjoy surprises . . |
| 13 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 14 | I do think you 've made a mistake Carl . |
| 15 | Commons authorities had thought they had rid the building of all asbestos — used extensively in the 1920s and 30s — during a big clean-up operation 10 years ago . |
| 16 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 17 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 18 | When she had thought she had felt a tug , her mind corrected . |