Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] i think " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago . |
| 2 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |
| 3 | But I mean if I think , if I think erm , if I remember rightly you were , you were buying erm couple or three weeks that 's my first lot , oh dear excuse me |
| 4 | Most embarrassing item : ‘ Silver trousers , a black PVC jacket and a whip I wore when I first joined the band , I cringe when I think of it now ’ . |
| 5 | Yeah I know cos I think you called on her cos you knew her . |
| 6 | It 's not entirely focused on the appraisee , you know cos I think |
| 7 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 8 | This type of plan is know as I think B is the answer , you know , of anybody got that wrong I think a severe smacking on the head is probably due . |
| 9 | Oh she has enough certificates to of gone to teachers ' training college , now that , I always feel although I think she 's quite happy now , but for myself , for myself and I 'm always er tempted by the fact that they always have twelve weeks ' holiday you know , I mean in one go the teachers |
| 10 | But er she said I suppose when I think about it it was an instant reaction you see . |
| 11 | But of course I think about him in a much different way as the years go by , and now I always smile when I think of him , because he made me laugh . |
| 12 | The food , and the mud on our wellingtons , and sometimes the faint tang of cordite coming up from the cellar all give me a good , tight , thrilling feel when I think about them . |
| 13 | I think because I think I think |
| 14 | I mean people are a bit narrow in this respect you know they do n't like people to talk about it too openly — but I do because I think it 's important but the trouble is that — erm — that 's not really systematic in the sense that I do it but how many other people do it you see . |
| 15 | Oh I quite agree because I think that there people that have , I 'm a car driver , but if I 'm in inner city I tend not to use that , I use public transport |
| 16 | But whereas when you were talking about it then I mean when I think about it |
| 17 | I mean when I think of all the money that was poured into my education and nobody ever mentioned the kind of decisions one would have to make in the future and the problems you would have in trying to make use both of your education and have children and have the happy family life that our society encourages you to have and that we all perhaps want . |
| 18 | I , I mean it may not be right , but it , I mean as I think you can see it has a kind of logic about it , erm and , and i it may be that it , it 's not the right explanation , but the very fact that erm we 're suggesting it , I think shows that erm again it 's naive to think that motherhood is a kind of er is a one-sided affair where you know mothers sacrifice themselves er for their offspring , because nature demands it . |
| 19 | It makes me all upset when I think about them . |
| 20 | ‘ I still shudder when I think of it . ’ |