Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] think [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to think that they evolved together . |
| 2 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have thought that it had a hell of a lot to do with you . ’ |
| 4 | I should have thought that it was a good idea so that he could see , from time to time , individual complaints about the businesses that he has the responsibility for regulating . |
| 5 | I should have thought that it was much more sensible to make proposals from the start for both a station and a link . |
| 6 | I should have thought that it would be common ground that it is right to review such organisations from time to time to establish whether they are achieving their objectives . |
| 7 | Given that he served in Cabinet for many years , I should have thought that he would be more objective and would not simply take as his evidence two cases from the front page of the News of the World . |
| 8 | ‘ Since you had yourself a very good motive for murdering him , I should have thought that you would wish to help me identify anyone else who had . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I should hate to think that I was intrusive . ’ |
| 10 | Yes I 'd love to think that I can struggle back with the tree . |
| 11 | Well sceptical silence , but that 's what I 'd like to think that we , we were doing . |
| 12 | We 've got some extremely competent and bright students , and I 'd like to think that they 'll do quite well . |
| 13 | I 'd like to think that it was remorse that made you come sobbing into Adam 's arms that way , but I 'm not so naïve as to believe it . |
| 14 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I do n't know , but I 'd like to think that I could have pulled the trigger if I 'd had to . |
| 15 | I 'd like to think that I never give poor care to any patient for political reasons , ’ he mused somewhat pompously , ‘ but I 'm certainly not above giving extra good care to the wife of an important man like Bill ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Well a at the start of the strike , my wife was just a little bit narked that I was out of work , but after a while when she fully understood the reasons , I think , I 'd like to think that she was a hundred per cent behind me and the rest of us . |
| 18 | And I 'd like to think that you now start to think , not in terms of , in terms of other hospitals , but to get a coordinated campaign throughout the country on this particular issue . |
| 19 | I would like to think that we 've pass for two hundred and fifty , subject to Trevor being satisfied . |
| 20 | I would like to think that she died still being floated by the giant kite , that she went round the world and rose higher as she died of starvation and dehydration and so grew less weighty still , to become , eventually , a tiny skeleton riding the jetstreams of the planet ; a sort of Flying Dutchwoman . |
| 21 | And I would like to think that you 're getting good quality of training , and reasonable accommodation during the training , which you will get . |
| 22 | ‘ I would like to think that it will not be something that will be legislated . |
| 23 | The CB METALS range has produced outstanding results over the year and I would like to think that it is now the yardstick among fishkeepers . |
| 24 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 25 | Settlement ‘ I would have thought that they would have learned from the public ridicule of the last month and made certain that they did n't get up to these things again , ’ he told the Press Association . |
| 26 | I would have thought that we could request the fenc the fencing and tell them our plans for the fencing and not lose anything by asking for them |
| 27 | I would have thought that we might go on holiday , well going on quite a long holiday , we 're going on holiday after the project video 's completed , so it 'll be Christmas for me |
| 28 | I would have thought that you could have got more than 32Kb of Upper memory from QRAM . |
| 29 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 30 | I would have thought that you 'd be delighted to invite Calder back just to put your views across again , even though there is n't anything between you both , as you 've been at pains to tell me ! ’ |