Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not think [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She later explained , ‘ I did not think that anyone was going to believe us as a family . |
| 2 | This I found strange since , to my innocent mind , I did not think that he could possibly have received an indication that a peerage was awaiting him . |
| 3 | I did not think that anyone would ever see the pictures except the sheep and the swooping ravens . |
| 4 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
| 5 | I welcome the right and learned Gentleman to the Dispatch Box — I did not think that he was going to answer this question as he looked a bit tired sitting on the Bench there . |
| 6 | That was accepting that the scheme , to which I did not think that reference had been made , might have been applied . |
| 7 | Then somehow she was spreadeagled along the seat and he was half-kneeling , half -lying on top of her and suddenly she did not think that what was between her legs was his finger . |
| 8 | Later she explored , and the boat 's possibilities seemed limitless ; she did not think that she could ever tire of it . |
| 9 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) who , if I have understood her words , made it clear that she did not think that it was a very good idea for people below the lower earnings limit to pay small amounts of national insurance . |
| 10 | They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’ |
| 11 | The ultimate goal was to have the potential unlocked , but they did not think that AEA was ready for that . |
| 12 | they did not think that it had been a whole school effort ; |
| 13 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 14 | When he looked back later in life he did not think that this dark night was caused by what happened on the road at Godmanchester . |
| 15 | He did not think that the then bench in the Church were all well qualified to this end . |
| 16 | He did not think that Ramsey would be interested in the load of administration which he would have to carry . |
| 17 | He added that while the evangelicals had their part in the Church he did not think that on the whole they had the qualities suitable for being bishops . ’ |
| 18 | He did not think that a ‘ good artistic work can be the joint production of two minds ’ . |
| 19 | But with most of the enemy leaders undoubtedly caught in the castle , he did not think that the surprised army would be in a position to counter-attack swiftly . |
| 20 | There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great . |
| 21 | He did not think that the house was watched that day . |
| 22 | He did not think that they were adequately prepared for their roles as modern doctors . |
| 23 | He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . " |
| 24 | He made it clear to Law that he did not think that Law was well qualified to be leader and that he reserved the right to contest any future vacancy , but Austen was too loyal a man to conspire ; relations were not very friendly , but there was total cooperation . |
| 25 | He did not think that the boy was the actual thief and he hoped that the boy would not be punished . |
| 26 | He did not think that their ambitions extended far into Western Europe but he thought it had been a serious error to let the Russians take Berlin and establish themselves there . |
| 27 | He did not think that the True People were the result of some genetic accident . |
| 28 | He did not think that swordplay was very dangerous , even when practised indoors . |
| 29 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 30 | He did not think that anyone at St Basil 's had even noticed him so far . |