Example sentences of "i [modal v] think [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I , I suspect that they 're on their way out because the way they leap and scream and bang and thump I should think that they , most of them have been on drugs . |
| 2 | I should think that it would be in order to discuss these matters when we debate the revenue support grant orders for England . |
| 3 | But it , it would make you feel , I should think that you , yeah , the lips were |
| 4 | If you want to have a lunch , and then to just shoot off afterwards , we would probably get you in the staff lunch , I should think but I 'll need to check that , if not you 'll have to wait till half past twelve , to have a , to have a lunch . |
| 5 | I should think because I 'm doing something with some students shortly and then erm there 's somebody coming to see me at two so er |
| 6 | She 's she 's about my age I should think and she sometimes , once a month she does the coffee wears glasses |
| 7 | I should think if you went across Crumwallis 's lawn and through the trees at the back you 'd come to it . |
| 8 | I 'll think whether I have any cousins in St Louis . ’ |
| 9 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 10 | I 'd think that I have seen enough to say that cricket could never be the be-all-and-end-all of life for me . |
| 11 | I used to think that we Met girls were the only ones awake and having to brave the elements . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to think that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a little kid ! ’ |
| 13 | I used to think that I ought to do everything and then at least I could n't blame myself for not having done enough . |
| 14 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 15 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was a child , ’ she said , ‘ I used to think that you could look into anybody 's eyes , anybody 's , and see through them right into their soul . |
| 17 | ‘ I used to think that you should always be yourself but now I like to be made up , smile and look like a woman should , ’ preens Fay . |
| 18 | Some days I think I 'm only young — I fell straight away for her [ the baby ] — I used to think before I was married I 'd better get all the clothes I want now because I 'll never get them when I 'm married — but I was wrong , because I can really have all I want now … |
| 19 | Oh when I used to think when I was a kid and the stuff I used to eat , you know there 's |
| 20 | So I would think that we 're working on a five minute schedule . |
| 21 | ‘ I would think that she turned the bitterness against Russell although he was completely innocent . |
| 22 | I gave this approach this title following a pamphlet which reproduces a lecture given by the English Anglican bishop of high church disposition John Austin Baker to a conference of the Movement for the Ordination of Women.l8 I believe that it is ( in less thought-out form ) widely followed by proponents of the ordination of women , perhaps of a less radical variety , and certainly I would think that it appeals to many men . |
| 23 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 24 | Do n't know I would think that it 's , she told me twenty five pounds so I thought it was gon na be like cash or something and then I read the thing that says twenty five pound voucher but it did n't say what for , it just says voucher knowing my luck it 'll be book tokens ! |
| 25 | I would think that you should be wearing Lovat s tartan by this time ? ’ |
| 26 | I would think if you looked carefully you would find that most people are . ’ |
| 27 | I would think if you were n't , you must have been very nearly . |
| 28 | I would think if you were felt the area of the houses on that side , the area of the houses on the Thorny side you would think that one 's |
| 29 | well I would think if it could lodged during the course of the next ten days or so |
| 30 | I would think if she think 's she 's gon na be a bit nervous then I 'll get . |