Example sentences of "[be] [conj] i think " in BNC.

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1 erm I do n't think our culture is the worst that 's ever been and I think there 's a tendency sometimes to try to sort of overstate that .
2 any problems , any problems the council for er two years , there are and I think that she 's actually provided a very significant contributions to the council .
3 Yes , they are but I think perhaps she 's a little too young for them
4 But erm oh they 're a great family they really are but I think George and J Joy 's having Edmund because although Dan lives in the town er what 's it called , New Haven ?
5 But I think , I mean they seem , these people had a , a jurisdiction of between ten to fifty si fifty or sixty thousand people , now so th th he 's , Mao 's saying that not all of them are , are evil , not all of them are , it 's only some who are but I think every sixty thousand more than likely are gon na look at theirs as being the evil one , that they are going to want to , to overthrow .
6 It should n't be and I think it 's a very sad reflection on the human race that it often is . ’
7 It 's called the unitary authority the new one would be and I think suggestion is that the city would go separate as opposed to the county .
8 I did n't know whether it would be but I thought , well you could go down and change it .
9 It could be but I think that the question is asking is , in Plato 's view , do each of us have an equal chance of performing this transcendence , or in view do we each have an equal chance of performing this transcendence ?
10 It used to be but I think it 's an old
11 Erm i if I 'm honest I think I found Holly 's easier to understand on a first reading but that may be because I think perhaps read it .
12 How could I not be when I thought of Mum Lying there in that bed day after day , completely wrecked by Dad having run off with another woman ?
13 There were one or two that were that I think were a little bit careless and did n't quite get the construction correct for them .
14 And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front .
15 It 's er erm a little bit more straightforward a we 're looking straight onto this wall , looking straight onto the steps , and we 're looking straight onto the door , so everything is looking , sort of erm full-faced as it were and I think that makes for a less interesting composition than the previous one .
16 Now , I have put down reports about the finance committee er as it were but I think the responses from the churches and districts sort of calculator will be there , we think that it would seem as though we should only offer the same amount as last year .
17 The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form .
18 ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay !
19 Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me .
20 ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months .
21 ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says .
22 No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones .
23 What does worry me though , is that I think he still thought it was a ‘ female sex aid device ’ !
24 If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way .
25 I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it .
26 The point that I was seeking to make a moment ago — I reiterate it now — is that I think that it is to the advantage of everyone in Northern Ireland for the politicians of Northern Ireland , of all shades of opinion , to come together , to talk and to express their mutual wish for peace in Northern Ireland .
27 ‘ What I mean , ’ said Robert , feeling a direct approach was required , ‘ is that I think I am having a nervous breakdown . ’
28 And I 'll start backwards by saying what I 'd like to see , and that is that I think with a group of women coming from such a broad spectrum , that the work we 're going to do is never going to be the same and there are going to be large areas in which we may not be able to work together .
29 ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like .
30 A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here .
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