Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most businesses give monthly or 30-day terms — or so they think . |
| 2 | Or so they think . |
| 3 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 4 | Probably it was simply one of those things that happen , or that you think happen , when you 're smashed and half-asleep . |
| 5 | I do n't really know what they think , or if they think , or if they give a shit about any of it in any case . |
| 6 | yeah , basically , or if they think you 're good looking . |
| 7 | Emergency contraception sometimes called ‘ the morning after pill ’ may protect you against pregnancy if you have had sexual intercourse without contraception or if you think that the method you have used may not have worked — but it should never be used as a regular method of family planning . |
| 8 | Emergency contraception ( sometimes called ‘ the morning after pill ’ ) may protect you against pregnancy if you have had sexual intercourse without contraception or if you think that the method you have used may not have worked — but it should never be used up to 72 hours after intercourse and an IUD method that may be fitted within five days . |
| 9 | ‘ Or if you think of anything else … ’ |
| 10 | I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here . |
| 11 | We do n't vote Labour because we think it will bring socialism , or because we think it will cure the slump , or even because we particularly admire its policies . |
| 12 | Just because you 've said you 'll go or because you think ? |
| 13 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 14 | IN Britain it 's more your style or where you come from or your haircut , whether you like The Stone Roses or whether you think such-a-body is shit . |
| 15 | So sett them by till ye next day ; then heat them again as you did before , & when you think their sowrness is pretty well out , they are enough . |
| 16 | I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up . |
| 17 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
| 18 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 19 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 20 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 21 | And that I think led to some weaknesses . |
| 22 | Yeah , erm , right , yeah , that 's all the other items , erm what 's been er been going through my head recently is , is er the , looking at the pattern of the meetings and the way the meetings are arranged and , and how , erm , at the last meeting we had a speaker er and that I think , we all found that quite interesting and the one , one from Central America that things and I feel we ought to have that much more frequently than we do have er , a , either a speaker or a focus of some sort of meetings erm , so I think that 's something I 'd like to raise and get the A G M at the next meeting I think similar thing we ought to consider there . |
| 23 | And that I think , I feel is one of the loopholes in the Sale of Goods Act , because it does n't lay down a definite time limit . |
| 24 | So if you 've got children looking at mortgages , just tell them to be careful and that I think really my advice would be to , for anyone starting off a new mortgage now , to definitely go for repayment , until they 've sorted out what they 're doing , because if you cash an endowment within two years , if you ca n't keep up the payments , if you lose your job , then y you get nothing back . |
| 25 | And that I think , is why Darwin was prepared to countenance Lamarckism in psychology whereas he never was when he was talking about physical adaptations . |
| 26 | Certain people have claimed that in group psychoanalysis and that I think is fraudulent , because they are not doing analysis they 're doing something different and erm I think it is something described I think very well in this book , although of course as we said this was written erm er group therapy . |
| 27 | It 's very short , it 's only about fifteen hundred words , and that I think explains it even more clearly . |
| 28 | Just to complete the picture on the districts around York , erm and in answer to the issue raised by er Miss Whitaker , I think the villages in erm the Harrogate sector of Greater York are all far too small to erm act as a nucleus for the size of development we 're talking about here , er the largest of them , Upper Poppleton , probably has about seven hundred to eight hundred houses , and that I think would be swamped and lose its character and also possibly suffer from coalescence with the nearby York urban area , if er large amounts of additional development were tacked onto it . |
| 29 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 30 | Erm and that I think , the response therefore to your position on financial figures for the contingency fund is if you sort the government out we might be able to . |