Example sentences of "[noun prp] think [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them . |
| 2 | Hawking thinks it can go either way but we will never know . |
| 3 | This same recipe provides an instructive example of the way in which Dr de Pomiane thinks we should go to work improving a primitive dish to our own taste while preserving its character intact . |
| 4 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |
| 5 | Radji thinks he ought to go back to Teheran so as not to be lumped with the more infamous of the Shahs associates " in peoples minds . |
| 6 | The adoption should n't affect her , they should n't take her into account , but Kegan thinks they might want her token agreement , so I 've got to handle this right . |
| 7 | Sue thinks someone must have loved me as Pete loves her . |
| 8 | ‘ Perks thinks they 'll go along beside the railway line . |
| 9 | Dana thought everyone should do just as she wanted , and why not ? |
| 10 | Donna thought she would need more than hot , soapy water to remove the accumulated grime . |
| 11 | Molly thought it would do in the morning , and then she said , ‘ Was it Mr Kettering who left the dog with you ? ’ |
| 12 | Molly thought she must have seen something . |
| 13 | Badgers have got a name for being vicious creatures , but Teka has taken to people so well Maggie thinks she must have been hand reared from birth . |
| 14 | Tallis thought she could hear the creak of a cart … |
| 15 | For a terrible moment Shannon thought she would give way to tears , and knew it was because of his fury on her behalf . |
| 16 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 17 | The older woman 's face puckered and for a moment Ruth thought she might cry — which was unthinkable in Miss Beard . |
| 18 | Ruth thought she would have preferred it if he had shouted at her . |
| 19 | There were narrow high windows , far above them ; Fenella thought they would open on to rooms at a higher level than the ground . |
| 20 | Rachaela thought they must look a very normal family group : Emma the fond grandmother ; Rachaela the mother with her black-haired baby . |
| 21 | Wordsworth thought he could learn from them ; he regarded no man as his inferior . |
| 22 | FEW foreign brokers in South Korea thought they would see profits in 1992 , the year in which South Korea inched open its stockmarket to outside investors . |
| 23 | Rincewind thought he could see a faint streak in the air , as if something from the mountain had reached out and touched the beast . |
| 24 | Rincewind thought he could hear the muffled sound of grumbling and the scrape of a stool being dragged across the floor . |
| 25 | Katherine thought she might cry . |
| 26 | Hampshire think they may lose up to a quarter of their membership when Dean Park goes after this season . |
| 27 | Robert thinks he may need some help . |
| 28 | He stood , in Tolkien 's view , for all that was good in the Dark Ages — for the heroic awareness of heroic fallibility which Tolkien thought he could detect in Beowulf and in Maldon , for the spark of virtue which had made Anglo-Saxon England ripe for conversion ( a process carried out without a single martyrdom ) . |
| 29 | ‘ And I still ca n't understand why Caro thought I 'd like you . ’ |
| 30 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |