Example sentences of "they think [conj] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , they are assumed to be committed to different conceptions of the good and they think that they are entitled to press their claims on one another to further their separate aims . |
| 2 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 3 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 4 | Politicians can only be trusted when they think that they are on the winning side and will ignore any democratic mechanism to prove that they are ‘ right ’ . |
| 5 | And they think that they 're all continuous , . |
| 6 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 7 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 8 | Now , what 's the difference between Switzerland and Scotland is it , is it that the Swiss have more money ? , is it that the Swiss are more body conscious , is it that the Scot 's are more puritanical , they think that there are more important things to think about , what do you think ? |
| 9 | The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 10 | Just to make sure that they think that you 're talking to them |
| 11 | They do not believe you ; they think that you are holding back some secret clue that would make it all plain . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I will give you my address , but they think that I am touring with my friend Laura Parslow and her family . |
| 13 | They think that I 'm just a mousy old woman , and could n't possibly know what goes on — they 've taken away all confidential work from me and Mr. Lennis treats me as if I were a half-wit . |
| 14 | I waited a little and after weighing it in my mind continued , ‘ They think if they 're not shot at once , then they will be when they 're no longer useful . |