Example sentences of "[pron] [be] think [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well , thank you Chairman , I I I 'm erm er , I must admit , I 'm I I am think long and and and er think deep really , about er , you know , changes such as this , but I I also er , er have to run my own businesses , and er , I just er , I think we have experienced a water-shed , it 's coincided to some extent with the change of administration and then during the nineteen eighties , we had to a boom in this county , we had the the opportunity and I never er ever er , been against that principle , of er , of er , using our actual receipts we have hidden reserves , we we talked about the reserves of twenty nine million pounds here , for the er , erm , we have er er , assets of twenty nine million , in an earlier paper . |
| 2 | I 'm thinking general . |
| 3 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 4 | Yeah I was thinking wonderful , your bedroom it looks like a palace your bedroom , . |
| 5 | At home I was thought ugly . |
| 6 | Dr. Edwin Pugh , director of public health medicine , said there were 1,001 things the authority wanted to do but those in the business plan were items which were thought possible during the coming year . |
| 7 | Unlike other republics , Serbia had still set no date for elections , which were thought unlikely to take place before the end of 1990 . |
| 8 | Its chief virtue lies in its medicinal qualities which were thought considerable ; even now it has some use in the treatment of ailments . |
| 9 | Some patients will be admitted to the ward for observation and investigations of a condition which is thought likely to need surgical treatment ; for example , to ascertain the cause of abdominal pain . |
| 10 | Chest x ray showed evidence of previous tuberculosis and some pleural thickening at the left base , which was thought likely to be long standing ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 11 | In Cyrenaica , then , the social and economic pattern was agricultural , and to a degree which was thought remarkable even in a world not familiar with alternatives to agricultural economies ( p. 13 ) . |
| 12 | you 're thinking long-term , yeah I can do this and then when it , a gentleman 's agreement and then it comes to paper , and when that paper 's signed you 're stuck with it |
| 13 | In Ayr , the second most marginal seat in the United Kingdom , Phil Gallie , the successor to George Younger , held on by 85 votes seeing off Labour who were thought certain to seize the seat . |
| 14 | You were thinking thin and healthy but the outside did n't match ? |
| 15 | The consultancy is expected to be headed by Rover UK 's managing director Kevin Morley , who is thought unlikely to relinquish his current position within the company . |
| 16 | As a woman who is young in years by our own standards but who is thought old by those of her own time . |
| 17 | She found she was thinking small , on the scale of the ark , seeing her own hands huge as those of Gulliver in Lilliput . |
| 18 | Atwater , who was thought likely to be given a ceremonial party post , was widely considered to be one of the key architects of Bush 's 1988 presidential election victory , but was suffering from an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 19 | None was thought suitable . |
| 20 | ‘ But surely — how could we be thought responsible , if the food or wine were poisoned ? ’ |
| 21 | What expression do they have when they 're thinking black thoughts about someone they 're trying to ingratiate themselves with , or when they 're being praised for qualities they 're aware they do n't possess ? |
| 22 | They are not content to stop now , they 're thinking big for the future . |
| 23 | but South Africa were also caught on drying pitches , and in the fifth Test , at Melbourne , they were thought lucky to have reached 36 in their first innings . |
| 24 | NOT for almost five years has it been thought necessary to preview a meeting of the General Committee of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club but today , at 5.30pm at Headingley , the 22 members will gather knowing that once again they wil be under intense scrutiny by the media . |
| 25 | Has it been thought necessary to make any special provision to protect the position of those minorities ? |
| 26 | Undertaken — if it were thought necessary — by expert psephological statisticians , it would doubtless confirm their extreme unlikelihood . |
| 27 | Modern means of communication , above all television , could easily overcome , if it were thought desirable , the isolation of any particular local assembly . |
| 28 | By the time they had risen above the storm , there was a slight smile on his lips , as if he were thinking pleasant thoughts . |
| 29 | The only useable machinery left in the workshops has been wrecked … and it 's thought industrial saboteurs could be to blame . |
| 30 | It 's thought militant muslim terrorists were responsible . |