Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] think it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 2 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 3 | I disapprove of diets so strongly because I think it 's wrong suddenly to deprive your body of certain foods . |
| 4 | This punishment , though , was dealt more severely than I think it should have . |
| 5 | He says the election is coming up soon and he thinks it 's politically motivated . |
| 6 | And she said to let her know straight away if we think it might be suitable . |
| 7 | I do think it 's lightened this room up though when you think it gone |
| 8 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 9 | Having given you food for thought , I 'd like to move on to a discussion of the criteria and can I say right now that I think it would be right and proper to limit our discussion this morning to the criteria . |
| 10 | I wanted to trail her back home but I thought it best not to go to too fast |
| 11 | He never hit a bad shot off the tee ; it just did n't come back as far as he thought it would . |
| 12 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 13 | You had a turn out then and I think it lasted till the next spring , not like taking curtains up and down like people do now and hoover for the carpets , course the carpet would be taken out and beaten as you as you know , they were n't they were slung onto a line and beaten with anything that was handy . |
| 14 | It was n't really as hard as I thought it would be . |
| 15 | I take it as seriously as I think it needs to be taken . |
| 16 | It 's our credibility as well you know we 're being told quality of service etc etc and I think it ought to be a department meeting we all ought to have the opportunity to put forward what we 're doing and where we 're going . |
| 17 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 18 | Indeed , he had enjoyed his three score years and ten twice over before he thought it necessary to engage the regular services of a sports correspondent . |
| 19 | Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons . |
| 20 | So would you mind describing how you got it up there again cos I thought it was quite a good story . |
| 21 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 22 | Okay now if you think it 's good , funny |