Example sentences of "[vb mod] think [pron] be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever he may think he is doing he can only be discovering , like our romantic traveller , but perhaps much less aware of what he is doing , that in the last resort his desires outweigh his fears . |
| 2 | You may think I 'm joking I do n't go abroad for my holidays , I go to Norfolk . |
| 3 | He must think he was volunteering it , rather than being cross-questioned . |
| 4 | ‘ Why , Mr Stevens , I should think I was addressing your father . |
| 5 | He 'd think I was saying it out of spite . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 7 | HE : Anyone would think they were cutting it for coal-heavers ( pause ) or stonebreakers . |
| 8 | She wanted to tell him that she had n't meant a word she had said , but if she did he would think she was hoping he was the rich man she had talked about . |
| 9 | I was afraid the kidnappers would think I was holding it back . |
| 10 | It embarrassed him to be sitting so close to the rector 's wife and he kept as far to the side as he could so that no one would think he was enjoying her company . |
| 11 | She will think she is losing me for ever . |