Example sentences of "think it be [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her their kinship was obvious , but she had thought it was because she knew — yet Leif also appeared to have detected it . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's slightly earlier than I thought it was but we 're OK still . ’ |
| 3 | It is n't a swan I thought it was but I I do n't , hello , I do n't think it is . |
| 4 | I said how wrong I thought it was that she was n't rated in the literary canon , that she was thought of as a ‘ popular ’ novelist , and how some of her work was very much better than that . ’ |
| 5 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |
| 6 | I thought it was because they could not understand the language . |
| 7 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 8 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 9 | She stopped abruptly , and Belinda thought it was because she had been about to say something outspoken that would betray this afternoon 's confidences — ‘ A wife like Belinda , ’ or ‘ Someone to share your house and your life , ’ but when Faye did speak again her tone was not the breezy cover-up that Belinda had expected . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Ven , and I thought it was because you did n't trust me enough not to ask Lubor personal questions about you for my interview . ’ |
| 11 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 12 | Hankey , the Secretary of the Cabinet , thought it was because he gave Baldwin ‘ a certain sense of gaucherie and inferiority ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I rather thought it was for yours . |
| 14 | Mr thought it was cos it was choir practice . |
| 15 | ‘ Anna would have told her who she thought it was if she knew . |
| 16 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 17 | I , I , I was gon na tell you what I thought it was and I 've forgotten have n't I ? |
| 18 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 19 | Do you think it 's cos she has n't ? |
| 20 | Do you think it 's because it does n't look domestic enough maybe it looks a bit industrial or |
| 21 | Well I do n't think it is because you 're again you 're back to the line that everyone is bullying and I do n't believe that everyone is bullying . |
| 22 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 23 | She 'd most likely think it was because he did n't want to help her . |
| 24 | Oh , I do n't think it was because she particularly disliked me or anything like that … ’ |
| 25 | She reached for a pair of glasses but I did n't think it was because she was dazzled by my teeth . |
| 26 | ‘ My dad thinks it 's because they were what they were that they were killed . ’ |
| 27 | She thinks it 's because she was carrying Gemma . |
| 28 | At first she sympathised a bit , but basically she thinks it 's because I dare to walk around and look people in the eye — I 'm too challenging or flirty or something . |
| 29 | Stephanie is regularly offered geriatric roles and thinks it is because she was brought up surrounded by archetypal elderly Englishwomen — ‘ I suppose it entered my bloodstream ’ . |
| 30 | Well , I think it 's but I mean , we can , I can honestly say never go er past we always tell each other we love each other . |