Example sentences of "i rather think [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know , ’ the Doctor said , ‘ I rather think we 're getting somewhere at last . ’ |
| 2 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Charles has n't published a guest list but since he did n't invite you , I rather think we shall be . ’ |
| 4 | I rather think they must have known you were coming . |
| 5 | ‘ In fact , from what Goibniu said , I rather think they do n't expect him to get back at all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I rather think they did . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , I rather think they did . |
| 8 | ‘ You can have too much of anything , ’ was Gay 's sage rejoinder , ‘ and I rather think her mother 's been overdoing this entertaining stunt . |
| 9 | ‘ I rather think one is supposed to talk suicides down gently , ’ Bernice reminded him . |
| 10 | I rather think she 's arrived . ’ |
| 11 | Cindy Hill is married to someone else with whom I rather think she 's madly in love . |
| 12 | Then I rather think his parents looked after him until they died . |
| 13 | I rather think he will be very broadminded . |
| 14 | I rather think he meant ‘ diluted ’ but on second thoughts perhaps he was right . |
| 15 | And the only other staff seems to be that young fellow in the kiosk , and I rather think he 's working for peanuts while he mugs up a thesis . ’ |
| 16 | I rather think he must just have picked it up when Mr Hambro chased him away from the cave-in . |
| 17 | I made it quite plain he would go before she did , and I rather think he has accepted the status quo . |
| 18 | ‘ I rather think he wants me to marry him , and I 'm too old to have the necessary child . ’ |
| 19 | I mean one member of the committee has produced something which I rather think you might all like to have a look at it . |
| 20 | And I rather think you understood . |
| 21 | ‘ I rather think you have , ’ the face says . |
| 22 | I do n't remember what happened to the cross-over , I rather think I foisted it on a mother before I moved house . |
| 23 | ‘ Yea , lady Anne , I rather think I would . ’ |
| 24 | He said slowly , ‘ I rather think I am . ’ |
| 25 | On the whole , given the mysterious and inexplicable circumstances , I rather think I prefer the word ‘ did ’ . |
| 26 | I rather think I 'm going to need them . " |
| 27 | ‘ Then I rather think I 'd like to be . ’ |
| 28 | Well , if I am right in all this — and I rather think I am — then you have decided to override my objections to publication in the most effective and heartless manner possible , have n't you ? |
| 29 | ‘ Actually , I rather think I will . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I rather think I am , ’ he drawled , and , just in case she had n't yet worked it out , though she was certain he knew she had , ‘ Naylor Massingham , ’ he introduced himself , and , neither of them offering to shake hands , ‘ but you can call me ‘ sir ’ . ’ |