Example sentences of "they think i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think they thought I was cut out or suitable for nursing . |
| 2 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 3 | I was put on the road with Lynyrd Skynyrd when they thought I was getting too big for my DMs , but they were real wild men and I liked them a lot and we got on very well . ’ |
| 4 | I had a notepad and I wrote poems on it when he was talking , so they thought I was taking letters . |
| 5 | They thought I was having a fight with him . |
| 6 | One person said : ‘ Many clients thought they 'd get a slightly better deal through having a blind social worker because they thought I was having to pull out all the stops to prove that I was good and therefore they would get a spin-off . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Some of them are so thick they thought I was fighting against England in Spain . |
| 8 | Do n't know whether they thought I was gon na leave home at half past five this morning . |
| 9 | I 've told them that I 'm hoping to replace their old hard-hat helmets with this new scuba equipment , but they think I 'm joking when I tell them they wo n't have any hoses to the surface . " |
| 10 | and if they think I 'm taking part in another they must be absolutely joking |
| 11 | They think I 'm blimming Mary Poppins , that lot . ’ |
| 12 | They squeeze their balls a little tighter , and smile because they think I 'm saying ‘ Hello , I love you ’ . |
| 13 | Management has decided that workers are still not ready to be pushed too far towards Japanese-style working methods , or as one assembly worker at Dagenham put it : ‘ If they think I 'm going to do physical jerks and sing the company song before I start my shift , they 've got another think coming . ’ |
| 14 | People meet me and they get all excited because they think I 'm going to have something funny to say . |