Example sentences of "[pron] think [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 2 | I think ought to cut them out . |
| 3 | I think let's say you could learn Which ones could n't you learn then do you think ? |
| 4 | er that that that I think will enable us to do our bit . |
| 5 | ‘ I tell you the things I think will interest you . ’ |
| 6 | Then , as Shiona started to turn away , her body stiff with loathing , he added calmly , ‘ Oh , by the way , I have a piece of news that I think will interest you … ’ |
| 7 | It 's difficult to measure in precise terms but having this employee assistance programme I think will help you attract staff , it 'll certainly help you retrain staff |
| 8 | Of course , windmills could be placed offshore , then perhaps there might be something attractive to seeing these structures out at sea at some distance — they could even be beyond the horizon — but they thought that they are whirling round usefully providing our energy I think could make them acceptable , and there is no doubt that the worldwide research and success in windmill research at the moment would suggest that wind power is within sight , but the economic investment and the problems of siting certainly mean that it will be only introduced gradually . |
| 9 | I think could chop them up and use them to make road surfaces with . |
| 10 | And when I get a moment I 'll get down to noting any facts I think could help you . |
| 11 | And then she said and then I think used to try you know ? |
| 12 | And anyone who thinks can pick it up . |
| 13 | What do you think would make him notice us ? ’ |
| 14 | She waited , forcing back tears she thought might irritate him further , watching his implacable shoulders . |
| 15 | It was n't the alcohol you thought would hit me … ‘ |
| 16 | ‘ It may be that you will come across information which you think would interest me . |
| 17 | Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle , such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable . |
| 18 | send your record to every DJ and radio producer in the country who you think might give it a play , and follow up your mail-out with a phone call . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me something you think might interest me . ’ |
| 20 | Take time to tell him something about your tastes and lifestyle — and the sort of style you think might suit you . |
| 21 | Can you think of any more modern day people that you think could inspire you and can show the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 22 | Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , we can not use such excuses for ourselves , and so let's get down to some hard facts ; facts which we think will give you an understanding of why you are overweight , and how this can best be tackled , in the short and long term . |
| 24 | The key that they thought would enable them to achieve this was palladium , a light grey metal similar to platinum in appearance . |
| 25 | ‘ They say things they think will keep us happy until the next tragedy , ’ he told a news conference . |
| 26 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 27 | It was curiously sexual this feeling , exactly the way he had once or twice felt with a girl he was mad to make love to and who he thought would let him but was not quite sure , not absolutely sure . |
| 28 | ( 29–30 September 1777 ) Having decided that he would like to remain in Munich Mozart reported a plan to Leopold which he thought might enable him to do so . |
| 29 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |