Example sentences of "think [that] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 2 | Would think that you had killed my father . |
| 3 | But it is a lawyers ' word , and those not used to legal language might naturally think that it meant changing something or exchanging property for other property . |
| 4 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 5 | She opened her eyes to the darkness , a darkness too often populated before sleep by those familiar , reproachful , childish faces , brown , black and white , bending over her , asking why she had deserted them when they loved her and thought that she had loved them . |
| 6 | He thought that he 'd found what he wanted in a village so small that it was n't even marked on his petrol-station roadmap . |
| 7 | When he thought that he had fulfilled his duty well , he called out in a loud voice : ‘ Emperor Frederick this tune is presented to you ! ’ |
| 8 | She thought that he had stopped his baiting of her , had accepted her , if not exactly for what she claimed to be , but as herself . |
| 9 | For a moment he thought that he had felt something , an infinitesimal trembling of the earth . |
| 10 | I was astonished , and thought that he had misunderstood my question . |
| 11 | I thought that he had found his salvation with me . |
| 12 | And Freud and a lot of other German speaking people , thought that he had let them down , because he did n't have the political goodness . |
| 13 | She thought that he had put her off handsome , impudent men for life . |
| 14 | ‘ It thought that I 'd sold its mate . |
| 15 | and thought that I 'd bought it . |
| 16 | I listened to his speech and thought that I had heard it before . |
| 17 | In paying my respects and tribute to the bereaved of the two soldiers and the young man killed , I am tempted to say that I thought that I had seen it all . |
| 18 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |
| 19 | Nothing happened for a moment , and in that moment she started to think that she 'd over-reached herself ; but then Charlie said , ‘ This is n't some charity for runaways , you know , ’ and she knew that she was still within the limits , if only just . |
| 20 | Then he smiled , and thanked her in that tearingly familiar voice , and suddenly she could hardly bear to think that she had lost him . |
| 21 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 22 | But he would not want you to think that he had forgotten you . |
| 23 | Of course , there had been the event with the woman and that blue box , but if Etienne concentrated hard enough , he found that he was able to think that he 'd imagined it . |
| 24 | ‘ I was beginning to think that you 'd lost your voice , ’ he remarked . |
| 25 | ‘ But , in the end , it was more useful to me to get her to think that you 'd done it … . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd begun to think that I 'd scared you away . |
| 27 | He absorbed another spoonful of nursery food , thinking that he had said something rather good which could be used in next week 's article . |
| 28 | Whether or not he was right in thinking that he had allowed his music to be led by and all but overwhelmed by Auden 's words Paul Bunyan marked the end of his close collaboration with Auden . |
| 29 | Thinking that he wanted to watch it because he thought it was funny , Bob made a few humorous remarks at the expense of the characters on the screen . |
| 30 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |