Example sentences of "think that if [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think that if I said please very nicely like that your mãe might give me a drink , too ? ’ |
| 2 | probably had n't paid that much , so these peo the ones that lent the money out , in really they er , and they really have suffered just , they probably thought that if we do n't lend them the money somebody else will and get the interest and they 'll grow bigger and much overtake us , you know , to , to take over our business , so er , so the |
| 3 | ‘ We thought that if we did n't like the Arab sector of Jerusalem after partition , ’ Damiani said , ‘ we would also have property in the Jewish sector . |
| 4 | She sometimes thought that if they went somewhere hot and beachy as most people did — the Seychelles , the Maldives , the Caribbean — they would spend the whole day swimming or sunbathing . |
| 5 | Observing a heated argument among the players over a game of cards , Chapman thought that if they put as much consideration and earnestness into their football , their game could only improve . |
| 6 | These chaps , good blokes who 've spent all their lives running businesses , believed the government manifesto and thought that if they shouted loud enough in the local paper , Whitehall would crumble and right would prevail . |
| 7 | She thought that if she went there while the maid was cleaning , Theresa and Anthony out at work , she could nick the netsukes if she was quick and clever , and the maid would not notice . |
| 8 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 9 | I thought that if I did n't get out I might end up being thrown out . |
| 10 | ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’ |
| 11 | Then I hugged her again and pushed her through the door because I thought that if it lasted any longer I would cry . |
| 12 | I think that if they had just local lads to contend with there would be no problems . |
| 13 | Miners , aerospace workers , no one seems to be safe from the axe — except perhaps all these public servants who think that if they do n't get a hefty pay rise every year they are hard done by . |
| 14 | I think that if you concentrate on really short term goals and practise things that are maybe a week away instead of a month away then you 'll gradually , slowly but surely , definitely improve . |
| 15 | I think that if you 've only got twenty spaces then that 's difficult because we 've got a hundred and something members most of whom are in the central belt |
| 16 | And I think that if I do n't tell you about them , well , I guess that no one would ever know . |
| 17 | ‘ You think that if I do n't know about your affairs , it ca n't disturb our relationship . |
| 18 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 19 | ‘ But I like to think that if I did n't do it , someone else would have done it with a lot less taste and love for the countryside . ’ |
| 20 | He blamed himself for the death of his friend , thinking that if he had n't used the ouija board , perhaps his friend would still be alive . |