Example sentences of "not think it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Browne did not think it was the job of councils to provide housing , but Mr. Barron was quick to counter that point . |
| 2 | The row was like an earthquake but I did not think it was the end for us , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ Police have told us that they do not think it was a deliberate attack on our house because I am deputy leader . ’ |
| 4 | By now some were laughing openly , but Mrs Jonesy did not think it was funny . |
| 5 | There were wan smiles on the faces of some who did not think it was possible . |
| 6 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 7 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 8 | Moore did not think it was necessary to ask the lawyer for more details of the ‘ foolish stories ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ He was off balance and I did not think it was a penalty . ’ |
| 10 | However , he did not think it was of formidable enough dimensions even to link the industrial towns of the North , let alone spearhead a wider rising . |
| 11 | I believe that er we did n't er consider going to look at the development because it was quite clearly in the minds of a large percentage of us that it was contrary to the town plan and so we did not think it was necessary to do that . |
| 12 | But I do not think it was open to them to state a sum constituting the … deficit and then say in effect they were not sure if the sum was correct . |
| 13 | ‘ He said he did not think it was human . |
| 14 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
| 15 | I do n't think it was right to make a joke about that . |
| 16 | David did n't think it was a good idea but I said we could n't keep going out and using the phone box down the road . |
| 17 | Well , I did n't think it was anything but rudeness and I ca n't stand bad manners so I got the next train back and left him there . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think it was as much that as people just waiting to see LL Cool J getting over-excited , ’ says Wildski . |
| 19 | I did n't think I looked so dreadful before , and I certainly did n't think it was any business of theirs how I looked . |
| 20 | It was confusing , and I did n't think it was helping , so I left . |
| 21 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 22 | No , I do n't think it was that ; it was simply the view he took of certain roles , certain music . |
| 23 | Yes , and I do n't think it was necessary . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't think it was a very good game . |
| 25 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You know , I do n't think it was an accident that , within a couple of years of sorting myself out , I met David . |
| 27 | All he would say in return was that he did n't think it was working out ! |
| 28 | I just could n't take a journey in a confined space with a man who pronounced Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe as Sisty Dub and did n't think it was as good as the Lake District . |
| 29 | I do n't think it was just because he made it back-to-back wins , either . |
| 30 | I did n't think it was possible for somebody to stand in the middle of the fairway and say it 's an iron of any description . |