Example sentences of "we think they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 2 | We thought they were silly and selfish , with narrow , primitive , semi-educated attitudes . |
| 3 | We thought they were angels in the home and that everything was marvellous . |
| 4 | After we lost our camera we could have bought another one at the market , but we thought they were over-priced . |
| 5 | We thought they were going to follow us , so we took a really weird route home , ’ says Peter . |
| 6 | ‘ When we got that first call from the company , we thought they were going to sue us because we 'd used some samples on a record without clearing them , ’ laughs Geoff . |
| 7 | ‘ We thought they were most unusual and attractive and could n't resist them for our own house , ’ says Sue . |
| 8 | At night we were visited by entrepreneurs in sarongs and Muslim black felt " peci " hats , who knocked so quietly that for a long time we thought they were merely underpowered geckos . |
| 9 | We thought they were like any other wartime group , nothing more than reminiscences and marching songs . |
| 10 | And with Rentakil , and if you remember at that time , as he rightly said last night the idea of going with Rentakil , was that we thought they were a reputable firm , |
| 11 | So first problem is one of serial correlation in this model right , if we estimated this model and things were as we thought they were this hypothes , these hypotheses were working and farmers were behaving erm , as we thought they might do , right , this model will automatically use serial correlation right . |
| 12 | ‘ We chose that company because we thought they were reputable and we had to do everything speedily . ’ |
| 13 | The ending reminds us that the boys are really just little boys who are childish , not the animals and cannibals we thought they were . |
| 14 | We thought they were , yeah , and they fucking bought one drink between them ! |
| 15 | ‘ We take interesting wines and price them at what we think they 're worth . |
| 16 | People who think like me are simply protesting against the Government 's action in a perfectly legitimate way — we think they 're wrong to attack Egypt and we want to stop them before any further damage is done . |
| 17 | We used to say well we think they 're done now , right |
| 18 | if you float you 'll stay at the top , some people can float and they do n't need arm bands , they stay at the top and if you sink they go to the bottom , now we 've got to look at these things look and we 've got to decide whether we think they 're gon na float , stay on the top or whether they 're going to sink and go to the bottom , now then what 's this here ? |
| 19 | ‘ We think they are being shot for meat when they land in Afghanistan , ’ she said . |
| 20 | If we think they are easy meat we will end up with egg on our faces . |
| 21 | ‘ While it would be a brave man who bought the shares in the current atmosphere ( although we think they are a buy ) , only a fool would sell them . ’ |
| 22 | WE THINK they are brittle , transparent women who are obsessed with weight-loss and cosmetic surgery . |
| 23 | We think they are about right , they would provide for an appropriate level of development . |
| 24 | They called out our names and we had to follow where we think they were calling us from . |