Example sentences of "thing i think " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
| 2 | As time went on , to avoid a whipping , I learned to tell her only the things I thought she wanted to hear . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll call for you after lunch , and we can go shopping for all the things I thought you 'd like to choose for yourself . ’ |
| 4 | I took the things I thought he would like ( not just the clever-clever things , like the perspective of Ladymont ) . |
| 5 | ‘ There were a couple of things I thought needed to be dealt with straight away . ’ |
| 6 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 7 | I have to tell you the terrible things I thought about you when I stumbled into that nursery , part of the rooms you had locked away from me . |
| 8 | And , a all these things I thought were so difficult ! |
| 9 | ‘ Ari there are a couple of things I think we should talk about , ’ Leila said , settling down on the cushions beside the girl . |
| 10 | The only things I think about are calorie-counting and weighing myself , and making sure that I do n't put on the weight I 've lost , and passing my O levels . |
| 11 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
| 12 | The lessons of A Course In Miracles provide many wonderful affirmations such as — ‘ There is nothing to fear ’ , ‘ I could see peace instead of this ’ , ‘ All that I give is given to myself , ‘ All things I think I see reflect ideas ’ , ‘ Let me be still and listen to the truth ’ , ‘ Light and joy and peace abide in me ’ , ‘ Today I will judge nothing that occurs ’ , and ‘ The past is over . |
| 13 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 14 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 15 | It stops you doing things I think couples should do before they start a family . |
| 16 | There are a number things I think we need to debate . |
| 17 | I glimpse things I think must come from behind ; but I 'm never very sure . |
| 18 | Now one of the things I think we need to do , And I I I put it in there and it 's pa it 's part of my appraisal system , is to do some work on actually entitlements to training . |
| 19 | Although Norman 's actually ticked that the project manager was gon na be responsible for certain things I think it 's one of these things that need to be brought out . |
| 20 | it is better it 's got erm , there are things I think one of the , I 'm |
| 21 | ‘ I tell you the things I think will interest you . ’ |
| 22 | So , it 's the same agenda , so if everybody 's okay with that note , I mean most things I think come up |
| 23 | unfortunate things I think , so |
| 24 | ‘ The first thing I thought when I saw myself on video was , ‘ Gosh , do I really look that bad ? ’ ’ confides Kitty , who has the problematic body of your standard middle-aged woman : potbelly , cellulite , stretch marks . |
| 25 | ‘ The first thing I thought was , ‘ Boy , am I fat . ’ ’ |
| 26 | The last thing I thought I would talk about was my christian beliefs why I am here today why I am a doctor and what God means to me . |
| 27 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 28 | In fact , it was just about the very last thing I thought would ever happen . |
| 29 | One thing I thought was nice was that one little boy , was more noisy than the others but it started thundering once and he came and held my hand as he was scared . |
| 30 | It 's , it 's just a thing I thought I 'd mention here . |