Example sentences of "to think that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment . |
| 2 | Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me . |
| 3 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd begun to think that I 'd scared you away . |
| 5 | I thought , I 'd like him to think that I 'd improved a little bit . |
| 6 | I think it 's hard to be honest with yourself about certain things and I wanted to think that I had no part in the grandiosity of MainMan and a lot of the bad things about MainMan . |
| 7 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 8 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 9 | ‘ And to think that I had specially brought that card all the way from Croisset and did n't even get to put it in place ! |
| 10 | I , I wo n't take up long , much of your time , I just did n't want anyone to think that I had er given up in my old position not to be a no doubt , I believe other measures could have been taken . |
| 11 | ‘ I used to think that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a little kid ! ’ |
| 12 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 13 | So no , I do n't think I missed out on anything , I like to think that I gained . ’ |
| 14 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 15 | I 'd hate anyone to think that I did well out of dealing with the problem page . |
| 16 | So I explained to them , I said well that 's cos you changed over and I sort of never put it across through oh she said well do n't worry I 've done it now , she said you have n't got anything to worry about now , I said well it did bother me a bit to think that I did n't think you had my payment ! |
| 17 | Actually , I have begun to think that I do belong to a time , but it is separated by so many decades from theirs that I reproach myself . |
| 18 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 19 | But I like to think that I have kept them up to date . |
| 20 | To think that I have contributed to the felling of trees so that the myopic gropings of a pseudo-intellectual can be printed ( History of the World NI 196 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I like to think that I have a lot to offer as well and I do n't want to have to wait years before I get the opportunity to prove myself . |