Example sentences of "[noun] think they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home-made wills do not always mean what the writer thinks they do . |
| 2 | So , given things being the way they are , who 's to say they 're the loonies because they do n't do things the way Joe Punter thinks they ought to be done ? |
| 3 | Do Gynaecologists THINK THEY 'RE GOD ? |
| 4 | ‘ The insurance sector , and indeed large areas of the financial sector , had never really focused on modern financial management — everyone working in the industry thinks they know about finance , and maybe they do , but they do n't know about financial control . ’ |
| 5 | How do the Opposition think they are going to finance £35 billion of extra spending without raising taxes on ordinary people ? |
| 6 | The adoption should n't affect her , they should n't take her into account , but Kegan thinks they might want her token agreement , so I 've got to handle this right . |
| 7 | Every department thinks they 're better than the next one . |
| 8 | Erm spooling , I would say , department thinks they 're one up on everybody else . |
| 9 | ‘ Perks thinks they 'll go along beside the railway line . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | And when the Germans bust the tunnels wide open , both parties thought they had justified themselves . |
| 12 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 13 | ‘ People like Stock , Aitken & Waterman thought they 'd discovered a formula for pop music , and there is n't a formula . |
| 14 | The normally staid Independent cleared its front page for a graphic , reminiscent of a medieval woodcut , depicting all stages in the evolution of the Cosmos , while the Sun announced that ‘ We Find the Secret of the Creation ’ and showed a mysterious egg-shaped blob with the caption ‘ AMAZING … the universe with ripples shown in the patchy areas ’ , presumably in case the readers thought they were patches in the rippled areas . |
| 15 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |
| 16 | It was the sight Gloucestershire fans thought they 'd never see again — Syd Lawrence advancing purposefully down the wicket at Cheltenham . |
| 17 | They say that although many shops THINK they 're providing for the disabled , the facilities are often inadequate . |
| 18 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 19 | They say that although many shops THINK they 're providing for the disabled , the facilities are often inadequate . |
| 20 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 21 | They say that although many shops THINK they 're providing for the disabled , in reality , they are not . |
| 22 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 23 | ‘ Some referees think they know best and wo n't let the physio on the pitch . |
| 24 | Often clients think they know best and have the trade publication editor to lunch or ring him up with titbits and gossip . |
| 25 | Well we 'll see if there , if there well the jury can have a look at them if they want , certainly if er if neither side think they 're going to be of any assistance then there 's not much point in producing them . |
| 26 | But the Lib Dems think THEY can take North East because they beat the Tories soundly in the local council elections last year . |
| 27 | Too many drivers think they can wind down the window , sing a song , have a conversation and it 'll go away , but I 'm afraid it does n't . |
| 28 | Many paediatricians think they are unnecessary , though . |
| 29 | Though this technology is well-established in medicine , researchers in Japan 's electric power industry think they are the first to take tomography outdoors . |
| 30 | Yet presumably the grand unified theory has determined that the authors think they were correct . |