Example sentences of "think [pron] can " in BNC.

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1 So would you like to just read what you 've written there so that , because I do n't think everyone can see , and I think this is
2 I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast .
3 I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home .
4 What do you think I can do for you ? ’
5 ‘ But there is no way I 'm going to go on a tour just now simply to grovel to those people who still do n't think I can sing . ’
6 Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’
7 Do n't you think I can see through that !
8 I do n't think I can do it myself . ’
9 ‘ I do n't think I can have her home .
10 ‘ I do n't think I can do it , ’ is how he put it when I phoned him .
11 Why do I think I can do the job better than the other applicants ?
12 But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars .
13 ‘ I 'd normally vote Labour , ’ she said , ‘ but I do n't think I can this time . ’
14 Hill , bought as a full-back for £200,000 from Bury , but a successful implant to central defence said yesterday : ‘ I do n't think I can carry on any longer .
15 He looked up from his desk and said , ‘ My good woman , where do you think I can put them ? ’
16 How much cheesecake do you think I can eat ? ’
17 I do n't think I can imagine how frightening that is .
18 How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ?
19 K : ‘ Um , I do n't think I can remember . ’
20 Do you really think I can remember that ?
21 The woman said , more to herself than to him , ‘ How many things do you think I can do at once .
22 I do n't think I can be much help to you , to be honest .
23 ‘ I do think I can be concerned about the problems in America , but I think feeling guilty is useless , and maybe that compounds the arrogance .
24 What makes you think I can cook as well as get stroppy about words ? ’
25 But — but I do n't think I can accept . ’
26 I do n't think I can make that either but er
27 thing is I do n't think I can but er I mean I might be able to pop in for about half an hour .
28 ‘ I do n't think I can bear to . ’
29 I 've made a complete fool of myself and I do n't think I can bring myself to ask what I came to . "
30 " It was n't exactly a question and now I know what you 're like I do n't think I can — "
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