Example sentences of "think [pron] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
2 | No I always think I mean it it just annoys me though I think I get well I just get I just think it 's a waste of the day . |
3 | erm I ca n't hear for Dorothy 's car , what did you say ? is he going I think I 'd better I said thank you for the cake |
4 | Ah but it 's a it 's a you know a rose , not you know I think I thought well what can you buy her ? |
5 | ‘ I think I know now what those boys were after — not apples at all , but — but — ’ |
6 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
7 | She was very , she did n't really want to get rid of the baby , not really , I think I think perhaps somebody had put the idea into her head you 've got enough children you should n't have any more . |
8 | Erm but I think I think certainly I would have thought a place like Reading probably half their people set the exams anyway so |
9 | Erm , something came up yesterday i in the catering unit found out that erm a first-aider in area , area had n't actually been reporting all minor accidents , erm , and I think she felt perhaps they were a bit too minor to report . |
10 | ‘ I think you know exactly what I mean , but if it makes you happy I 'll spell it out . |
11 | I think you know exactly what I mean . ’ |
12 | People said he was a fool , but I think he knew exactly what he was doing . |
13 | Mind you I think he does well I do n't know him boy lives near me . |
14 | But if a passage you have written seems confused , yet you think it says basically what you want it to say , it can be worth moving elements by changing around active and passive constructions ( or experimenting with cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions , which are described above , Chapter 3 , p. 64 ) . |