Example sentences of "as i think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi would have understood that challenge , just as I think he would have been happy to agree that it is possible to speak without contradiction of the literal imagination . |
| 2 | I feel my heart pounding as I think of her , and I can not push from my mind a strong feeling that something has happened to her . |
| 3 | I finger the necklace often these days as I think of my many friends in that country . |
| 4 | Yet is this country , though I am mainly Welsh , a kind of home , as I think it is more than any other to those modern people who belong nowhere . |
| 5 | We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience . |
| 6 | As I think George Bernard Shaw once said . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is leap year and I lost no time in popping the question as I think he is the right man to lead Claro and Grindlewood Park into the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 8 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 9 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 10 | Think of me , Minnie , as I think of you . |
| 11 | I myself would be proud to donate to a fund of this kind , as I think a lot of people would . |
| 12 | I knew I was capable of doing better — as I think I have proved . ’ |
| 13 | But as I think I have said already , I can recall vividly the way the last of the daylight was coming through each open doorway and falling across the corridor in orange shafts . |
| 14 | As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship . |
| 15 | ‘ Your wee nip , as I think you call it , Gran . ’ |
| 16 | Hall then wrote to Palmerston , on 20th March , only one week after asking for the designs , saying that he would not include Donaldson as I think it very doubtful whether the new Department will be proceeded with , as I hope the Downing Street improvement will be carried out' , and two days later The Saturday Review in an article on the competition also suggested that the War Department should be moved to the Downing Street area . |
| 17 | Would it be possible to have just one uplight , as I think the aeration of two powerheads could be causing the algae ? |
| 18 | I was delighted with the fact that the southwest of Scotland has been highlighted as I think that it is one of the most underrated parts of Scotland where golf is concerned . |
| 19 | On the one hand there 's Little Liz , and on the other there 's Lovebite ; but just as I think I 've made a decision , the image of Lord Lane comes into my mind and I get all confused again . |
| 20 | If we can break even — as I think we will — it will be a qualified success . |
| 21 | ‘ I am delighted that Jarvis 's Frayn has had a good reaction , as I think it is some of my best work . ’ |
| 22 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |
| 23 | He sits there looking like John Knox being unimpressed by Mary Stuart , and just as I think he 'll never let me increase my overdraft he says , ‘ Aye , life 's not easy for a woman alone with no head for business . |
| 24 | The ambiguity , as I think , was what Lanfranc intended . |
| 25 | Emilia reveals that she found the handkerchief ( ‘ Villainous whore ! ’ and ‘ Filth ’ , he calls her ) , and with her dying breath — that most crucial of all utterances to Renaissance beliefs — proclaims her integrity : ‘ So come my soul to bliss , as I speak true ; /So speaking as I think , alas , I die ’ ( V.ii.253f . ) . |
| 26 | Oakeshott 's notion of tradition arises out of a genuinely philosophical analysis of human activity and in no way presupposes ( as I think Burke 's appeal to tradition does ) a belief in the wisdom or rationality of history . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not going to be as bad as I think ’ |
| 28 | All this is the result of an occult induction , as I think they call it in psychiatry . |
| 29 | As I think on this my anger at his death is less , though my grief can not be . |
| 30 | If it does matter , as I think it does , then what is to be done ? |