Example sentences of "think [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I need to repeat that I think everyone can hear the questions er |
| 2 | ‘ If you think someone can work at his best at half past two in the morning after being at it since eight the day before you know nothing about human beings . |
| 3 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , apart from the potted shrimps I think I can assure you , Inspector , that one way and another all the other dishes were shared . ’ |
| 5 | You really think I can do this fucking exhibition , work on all these projects , sit beside you and keep my filthy lesbian hands to myself ? ’ |
| 6 | I THINK I can safely say that Peter Greenaway 's latest film will do nothing to increase the appreciation of food in this country . |
| 7 | I think I can do anything , one leg , no legs , one arm tied behind my back . |
| 8 | Well , I could have but then I always think I can do anything , do n't I ? |
| 9 | Even when I 'm injured I think I can do it regardless . |
| 10 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I can do a little of both . |
| 12 | ‘ But if any man will read aloud on alternate mornings for a single month a page of Pindar and a page of the Psalms in any translation he chooses , I think I can guess which he will first grow tired of . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It s a Hell of a squeeze , but I think I can wriggle through . |
| 14 | ‘ But I think I can manage . ’ |
| 15 | I think I can understand why he chose the 18th century . |
| 16 | In a way his personality does influence the way I would vote , because I think I can trust him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ While the show was going on they were peering at other faces in the audience and saying things like ‘ I think I can see my mother ’ and ‘ I think I can see my uncle . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ While the show was going on they were peering at other faces in the audience and saying things like ‘ I think I can see my mother ’ and ‘ I think I can see my uncle . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think I can do that . |
| 20 | I think I can promise that life with me , whatever else it may be , will not be humdrum . |
| 21 | Its application could — I think I can say it might revolutionize life by the end of this century . |
| 22 | I think I can easily wait for you here until that time . |
| 23 | It was Inspector Burrows from Reading ; ‘ I think I can establish the identity of the man seen outside Oliver 's shop , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 25 | Sometimes I think I can see him . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ A fair point , ’ Aranyos conceded , ‘ but I think I can answer it . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I can . ’ |
| 28 | Taking several samples of firedamp in glass bottles , Sir Humphry returned to London telling Buddle , ‘ I think I can do something for you ’ . |
| 29 | I think I can see now , why you have put it in . |
| 30 | Next year I think I can run even faster . |