Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] they think [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
| 2 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
| 3 | People would n't be so nice to me if they thought I was so lucky , but it 's fun to see their faces when I bring certain special ones back now and then . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And I hardly will get to know them if they think I 'm there on some different basis to themselves , ’ she had said . |
| 5 | You 've not got ta be timid , y'know , because obviously people will try and browbeat you and intimidate you if they think they can . ’ |
| 6 | But the jury of neighbours who decide upon your fertility might not look too kindly upon you if they think you are going to bring up your children as Jehovah 's Witnesses or Servants of Baal , or use the terror of hell as a way of controlling them : or beat the soles of their feet if they get the Koran wrong . |
| 7 | a lot of these places , they start you if they think you 've had experience and all that , but it do n't always work as well as them that ai n't had experience . |
| 8 | Even if you 're in a non-union company , they will fight for you if they think you 've got a case . |
| 9 | Some people do tend to run away from you , they 're afraid of you because they think you 're wild . |
| 10 | They wo n't come up to you because they think you 're dirty , because you got pregnant and you 're only fourteen or fifteen , but if you 're seventeen or eighteen it does n't matter , you 're old . |
| 11 | are quite prepared to be a minority of one if they think they are right |
| 12 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 13 | You used to surprise some of them because they thought they 'd done it before you 'd notice . ’ |
| 14 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 15 | But I said Cheryl if we do sell these tickets to whoever and they think they round yours , I said they can , you know what she said no I do n't want anyone else , I said that 's fair enough . |
| 16 | They — whoever they were — had underestimated her if they thought she could be cowed into submission by threats and violence . |
| 17 | So I ca n't see that it 's justified you keep letting your best players go people do get illusioned and people are n't fools , they 're gon na stop away are n't they if they thinking they 're not doing anything to get going anywhere . |
| 18 | What was to stop anyone just shooting him if they thought he was worthless to them ? |
| 19 | They wanted to get rid of her because they thought she was an interfering busybody . |
| 20 | Tommy , inset left , killed him when they thought he owned them £25 . |
| 21 | Yeah , incredible cos a lot of people said already , like they 've heard it and they think it 's amazing . |
| 22 | They were erm a bit reluctant and were going to fight against it cos they thought they were going to look for er places to bury nuclear waste and it was shelved but I ca n't prove them right and I ca n't prove them wrong . |
| 23 | Rather , they say it because they think it must be like that . |
| 24 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 25 | What if they thought his presents were old-fashioned and stupid ? |
| 26 | AIDS ( acquired immune deficiency syndrome ) was first called GRID ( gay-related immune deficiency ) and , by homosexuals themselves when they thought they had a monopoly of it , the Gay Plague . |
| 27 | And this was how the red people passed their time and amused themselves when they thought nobody was watching . |
| 28 | It 's wrong for us to steal from someone who seems to be richer than we are just as it 's wrong for someone to steal from us if they think their need is greater than ours . |
| 29 | Because if we do n't we then run the risk of being injured ourselves erm somebody alleging that they did n't realise they were police officers and therefore shot at us because they thought we were invading their territory or something . |