Example sentences of "what i think [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you talkin' about what I think ye are talkin' about ? ’ |
| 2 | In my concern as Chairman of the Board was that er if very few people turned up then perhaps people might say that we did n't go around go about advertising it in the correct way what I think we actually did I 'm not sure how many people are here this evening , but I should think it 's somewhere in the region of about hundred and , hundred and fifty , so I hope that the meeting this evening sort of cross representation people actually use facilities which the playhouse offers . |
| 3 | But whatever we may take or reject from Freud , what I think we should not lose is the way in which he raises questions and problematises things which are sometimes taken for granted . |
| 4 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 5 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |
| 6 | From what we have proposed as speakers ' topics in conversational discourse , it must occasionally happen that there are at least two versions of ‘ What I think we 're talking about ’ which are potentially incompatible . |
| 7 | We might characterise speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ as something involving herself , the 1930s , and the existence of telephones ( as well as radios ) at that time . |
| 8 | Speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ must now involve speaker A , A's father , the Scouts and a man ( who may have something to do with telephones ) . |
| 9 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 10 | We might think that by the end of this fragment there is once again a single version for both speakers of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 12 | What I think we 'll do to start off with is to just put you on one inhaler and see how well you respond and if you only need it ev every now and again we do n't need to do anything else . |
| 13 | So what I think we ought to do is — ’ |
| 14 | That 's what I think we should be asking for . |
| 15 | What I think we might with advantage look at now is not the grounds for saying ‘ I 'm happy ’ , but the occasion for saying it . |
| 16 | What I think we are looking for , in asking for during th was a ratification of the definition of Greater York . |
| 17 | I think it 's a sure fire bet at getting a fiver , what I think we ought to do immediately |
| 18 | what I think we ought to do immediately , however , is to write to Graham , inviting him to , let's see |
| 19 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |
| 20 | er , right , what I er , what I think we 've got is an allowance . |
| 21 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 22 | Erm what I think we need is an alternative to the suggestion made by Mr Broughton erm is simply erm a wording in the exceptions policy should it be er carried forward that makes it clear that the agricultural policies in the structure plan do still apply erm to those proposals . |
| 23 | What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm . |
| 24 | If they 're what I think they are , we can polish off the Dispersionists for good . ’ |
| 25 | Do your words now mean what I think they mean ? ’ |
| 26 | I can only tell you what I think I 'd do in your position and it is this . |
| 27 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 28 | Well , what I think I shall do now is I think I should take this a little further about this union business , I think I should get in touch with Dave , the Editor of the T U C to find out what the exact position of these , this so called union is because it does n't sound like a union to me , it sounds , it sounds like an . |
| 29 | And how far do I not accept what I think I might get in order to remain on good terms . |
| 30 | ’ But if I 'm delivering what I think I 'm delivering , your lordship , I 'm an accessory to theft and corruption . |