Example sentences of "[vb mod] think they [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 2 | He was horrified that women like that should think they were fit to be seen in leotards and striped leggings . |
| 3 | Mm , should think they were , they love it . |
| 4 | If they remember , they 'll think they were imagining things , jumping to conclusions . ’ |
| 5 | Looking quickly at paintings such as Pounding Foam or A Winter Sea , you might think they were expressionist works by Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning . |
| 6 | Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . |
| 7 | At first you 'd think they were just looking but really they were turning things over and over in their hands to see how they were made and checking out the cut so they could rip them off . |
| 8 | They 're quite short , and you 'd think they were plump except it s all muscle , and they do n't have a stitch on . |
| 9 | They flash their eyes at each other so much you 'd think they were rehearsing a scene from Carmen . |
| 10 | Now on Green , now we go , we 've come along from the top of Street right along Road , the toy shop then you get to the Kings Arms and on the other side of the road there was another pub and I ca n't remember the name of it , then there was the fish shop and then the Liberal Club then the pork butchers you 'd think they were all full of meat . |
| 11 | In the dark a stranger to the house could think they were walking into a room . |
| 12 | Yeah but you could think they were brother and you know . |
| 13 | HE : Anyone would think they were cutting it for coal-heavers ( pause ) or stonebreakers . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 15 | He was very proud of the new trees , you would think they were his . |
| 16 | Anyone would think they were carrying open trucks of radioactive waste . |
| 17 | If someone believed that tables were better than chairs , we would think they were talking nonsense . |
| 18 | ‘ If you stopped shopping the IRA would think they were doing the right thing , ’ said Susan Wooldridge , 47 , of Hungerford , Berks . |
| 19 | So when I used to drop the old ladies off , I 'd always give them a kiss goodbye — then the other drivers would think they were my granny ! |
| 20 | One crew would control a real system and the other would think they were so doing but would in fact be in a control room driven by software . |
| 21 | One would think they were made office … from his whole personality emanated an air of sovereignty |
| 22 | Olga and Boyd Stych are going to be blamed , because everyone will think they were agreeable to its publication . |