Example sentences of "they think be " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps they would tell us , if they were allowed to spend more , where do they think the funds come from , and who do they think 's going to pay ?
2 I want Mum to ask the doctor why they keep testing me — what do they think is wrong ?
3 What do they think is good about our brand ?
4 What did they think was going to happen after the last British troops evacuated the Canal Zone on 13 June 1956 ?
5 Peter Nutting , who led the association of Outhwaite members to a succesful settlement , said he sympathised with Gooda Walker names , but ‘ if the names were not going to pay these calls , who did they think was going to pay them ? ’
6 What , what they thought is that all the ones that
7 What they thought is because he 's assessing them and she 's , they 're assessing us while he 's assessing them .
8 Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) .
9 Jack and the vet ( who turned out to be an Irishman too ) drinking whiskey which they thought was brandy because I 'd put it into a brandy bottle …
10 To simply sit on this cushion at the BBC day after day and flip on anything they thought was moving — well , I thought that was the most sacred and powerful position in the universe .
11 They 're amazed that what they thought was a quiet little Swedish story appears round the world the next day , ’ says Mr McGovern .
12 Three faces lit up , beaming in upon what they thought was a crucial fact .
13 An inquest in Lancaster had earlier been told that by the time the information was received , Lancashire Police had spent £250,000 investigating what they thought was the murder of John Threlfall , 18 .
14 It exploded at 1.10am , seconds after two police officers sent to inspect what they thought was an abandoned white van under the flyover received the warning .
15 Making no mention of sex , she asked the children to tell her about anything that had happened to them at school which they thought was unfair .
16 Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky .
17 No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered .
18 People walking across what they thought was firm snow would fall through into fast running streams that had n't even been there before .
19 Terrified of making the slightest slip — Kinnock and the rest played safe — or what they thought was safe .
20 They did what they thought was best in the circumstances . ’
21 A stunned silence fell upon the room as they focused their attention on what they thought was princess Voluptua .
22 They wanted to give the notebook to Chris Bonington who they thought was coming to Kazakhstan in July .
23 The Germans are said to have shot 100 French hostages in reprisal for this sinking which they thought was the work of the Resistance .
24 She and Mrs Taylor went around the shops ordering what they thought was necessary and Dad and his cronies , Fred the lamplighter and his workmate Willie Turner , went along to The Golden Cup to order the drink .
25 In fact , what they thought was : .
26 There have also been at least five hospitalisations in the North-west recently , all people who became catatonic after taking what they thought was Ecstasy .
27 When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route .
28 This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ .
29 I was living at my folks and then my parents found what they thought was a lump of cannabis in my pocket .
30 However , the silence continued for some time , as though the other rabbits did not care to mention what they thought was wrong .
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