Example sentences of "think [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Think rather that I am the lady of death and that you are the master of death ! |
| 2 | So I mean it does n't , I mean , I mean the point about social work erm you know doing er some experience is I think so that you actually experience the erm sort of so the , the group dynamics of people who are in trouble and ca n't cope . |
| 3 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 4 | But if this station youth centre is to continue , and I think personally that it is very important that it does , and that it develops . |
| 5 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 6 | I think perhaps that I am at least partly forgiven . ’ |
| 7 | We do n't want the children from Columbia on the streets etcetera , because there 's sort of an awful helplessness about us , because we think we 're doing one person , how on earth can we actually do anything , you see if enough people think together that if possible the change happens , then it can happen , right , and you are actually the ones that are going to have to be considering that you are a world 's visitor , you are not just Tom and you 're not just Anthony right , erm , you 've really got to think , what about Jayne , there you are ideal Jayne |
| 8 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 9 | Jesus said some strong things about the Old Testament : " Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets ; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them . |
| 10 | Well , I think not that they 're afraid not to be but |
| 11 | But in dealing with bacilli which may mean illness and death , I think further that an appreciable measure of actual risk justifies the tenant in throwing up his contract … |
| 12 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 13 | But they did say I think distinctly that they did not pick up at Norwood Gardens . |
| 14 | I think also that aspersions were cast , as asides , on the true soldierly qualities of Sgt York , and hence on all American soldiers , and a three-way fight broke out among the French-Canadian , American and British , to a background drone of German bombers wending their weary way to or from London , or circling in a desultory fashion prior to dumping their bombs with a dull thud on the surrounding countryside . |
| 15 | I love Moscow , and I think its beauties are many , but I think also that only the Van Cliburn coalition , casting its own magic so thick around itself that all the world becomes a glittering study in delight , could make one feel that it is the happiest and nicest and most cosy-comfortable spot on earth . |
| 16 | I think also that three other Hearthwares shall come , in case we need to fight our way out of some tight spot . |
| 17 | I think also that we should make clear that the nature of the Tests this year is understood to be less threatening etc. etc . |
| 18 | I think also that he liked Kelham — provided it were a short visit , for he was by nature and inclination a townsman — because he felt that such establishments were of great value in carrying on , in addition to theological instruction , the classical tradition . |
| 19 | Chairman , I do n't really want to say very much er by way of rounding up I think that we 've had a very significant er debate here today , there 's been a lot of discussion on very important issues , erm I think throughout that we we 've managed to get er a certain number of of issues really er in my view at least anyway sorted out . |
| 20 | So I think inevitably that steps taken to try to reduce manpower as much as one can , unfortunately , and as Paul says I think the problem is trying to or adapting to the new situation . |
| 21 | But then it does n't seem possible when you think back that it 's |
| 22 | I mean , I think really that erm children benefit from stable relationships within the family unit . |
| 23 | erm , I think really that he 's finding erm , er the , the pressure of , of erm , of , of the , I mean , bloody kids are almost unendurable ! |
| 24 | I think now that her predominance has done in justice to lesser things in my life , as indeed it may still do . |
| 25 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 26 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 27 | I think now that they were probably quite generous , but then I took my colour from my proud mother — who retaliated with satire to the implicit condescension she thought she detected . |
| 28 | I think now that it exists it ought to be giving money to these things , but I think it ought to be taking the advice of the panels of artists and museum people . |
| 29 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 30 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |