Example sentences of "[verb] think [pron] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We thought she 'd thought we 'd run him down , ’ Fernando laughed , throwing his head back and holding his forehead . |
| 2 | ‘ I would never have taken her if I 'd thought it would upset her . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 4 | Now he would have even more cause to think he could use their past acquaintance as an excuse to be familiar with her . |
| 5 | He seemed to think he could carry her off like this , and get away with it . |
| 6 | ‘ I should 've thought you 'd want him to know . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd like to think I can call you at home if there 's something I need . ’ |
| 8 | They seem to think you will move him from the Tower . ’ |
| 9 | Next day Bacchus was caught behind off Hendrick 's first ball , and suddenly England began to think they might do it . |
| 10 | I 'm really beginning to think we might make it . ’ |
| 11 | I think she was beginning to think she would have it black after all . |
| 12 | I was beginning to think I 'd put myself in kind of a spot with all this . |
| 13 | And in the end I felt he really was beginning to think he might do it for me . |
| 14 | I like to think I can do what she does , but perhaps not as well . |
| 15 | I like to think he would wish me good luck in the future . ’ |
| 16 | I would n't have thought she 'd hear them would she ? |
| 17 | But I would have thought you 'd expect him to be faithful to you for a day or two at least . ’ |
| 18 | They must have thought you could do it . |
| 19 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 20 | I would have thought you could control your staff 's tongues rather more efficiently , Matron . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I would have thought you could ask it the other way round . |
| 22 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 23 | Mr Bergg said : ‘ I would hate to think anyone would identify me or my party with the BNP . |
| 24 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 25 | ‘ We tend to think we can do anything , ’ he said wryly , ‘ but we ca n't . |
| 26 | Do think they 'll work it out ? |
| 27 | ‘ I do think they should do something for it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ All that aside , ’ she said in a softer voice , ‘ I do think we should discuss his suggestion , Peter . |
| 29 | something which , that interested me but I do think I 'll find it boring or something . |
| 30 | Ca n't wait to get this bedroom sorted out Do think I could have my desk ? |