Example sentences of "think [pron] can [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 2 | Do you think you can take time out to have a cup of tea ? |
| 3 | ‘ I seriously do n't think you can cram people any more , at GCSE or A level . |
| 4 | I do n't think you can see things the way I see them . |
| 5 | I do n't think you can have night bells actually , because the system is too small . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke may invigorate the police , but nobody thinks you can beat crime just by legislation . |
| 7 | To anyone who thinks you can take drugs , this shows the risks . |
| 8 | ‘ Or do you think we can grow wings and fly across the Greshorns ? ’ |
| 9 | I do n't think we can say poisons , that , that implies that it 's damaging health , we do n't know that . |
| 10 | It might be easier to get I do n't think we can have banks , because I would of . |
| 11 | He never did this , he never did that , I do n't think we can take action , dearly as I would like to ’ — that 's a negative evaluation . |
| 12 | No , I do n't think they can pay writers very much at all . |
| 13 | There are a couple of French soldiers following us , but fortunately I do n't think they can speak German . ’ |
| 14 | People in Italy have a complex : without a raccomandazione they do n't think they can do things . |
| 15 | The Americans are telling East Europeans that they should not think they can join NATO — that would break the ‘ do n't gloat ’ rule — and they do not mean to imply , either , that NATO 's security perimeter has been extended to the Soviet-Polish border . |
| 16 | ‘ Hey — do you think they can see Biff Thacker as well ? ’ |
| 17 | If everyone thinks they can make money out of bargain books , let them . ’ |
| 18 | Oh I thought you can move bulbs any time when they were dormant . |
| 19 | The Met thinks it can deflect New York 's city politicians by showing how useful it has already become ; the British Museum hopes parliamentary auditors will give up , dispirited by some prickly opposition . |
| 20 | The mainstream Labour left thinks it can call Mr Major 's bluff : he would rather swallow the Social Chapter , they guess , than lose the whole treaty . |
| 21 | Thinks he can treat people like dirt . |
| 22 | He thinks he can play spoof , but I usually come out of the pub legless with as much money as I went in with . |
| 23 | If the trouble spreads far enough and he thinks he can buy peace with a cheap loaf of bread then I should think he will . |
| 24 | I think I can interpret Ken 's request for it to be done by the end of the week as meaning in his hands on Monday morning . |
| 25 | ‘ I think I can manage Dagmar . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I think I can make runs at Test level , I do n't feel I will be out of my depth . |
| 27 | ‘ Y'know , I think I can smell pig too . ’ |
| 28 | I think I can spell school ! |
| 29 | I think I can add qualities as a captain to assist that ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I think I can hear Edwin and Daisy at the door , ’ said Sophia in a relieved tone , going out into the hall . |