Example sentences of "to think that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many came to the door attempting to sell brushes , polish and so on , often carrying a card from the firm employing them explaining that they were disabled servicemen , I tremble to think that we could ever return to conditions like these . |
| 2 | I suppose , thought Fenella , that I was rather innocent to think that we could get in so easily , or that the Robemaker would not in some way guard his secrets . |
| 3 | Psychiatrists used to think that they could determine where free will began and ended and could decide objectively whether a defendant was sane or not . |
| 4 | Failure to react would allow the English to think that they could do as they wished . |
| 5 | The GIST team seemed to think that they could brush aside any anxieties about the difficulties of being a woman in science by presenting a series of bright , appealing images . |
| 6 | The Deputy Prosecutor-General of Russia , Yevgeny Lisov , who had carried out the investigation , said on Jan. 22 that there was no evidence implicating former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in the coup , but that his actions might have led the conspirators to think that they could count on his support . |
| 7 | To think that they could end up like me , ’ he said . |
| 8 | To think that one could actually predict these phenomena , that there would ever be a possibility to do so , seems on the surface quite mistaken . |
| 9 | I am horrified to think that there could be 120,000 Kiwis of Scots descent who are doing the same as me and depriving you of decent circulation . |
| 10 | It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this . |
| 11 | Although he was worried for her , it made him happy to think that she could confide in him her feeling for Harry . |
| 12 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 13 | It had been a mistake to think that she could not be hurt again . |
| 14 | humbug and foolishness ; that it was all prearranged ; that he was given music which he already knew ; that it was ridiculous to think that he could compose , and so forth . |
| 15 | And I felt absolutely horrified , devastated to think that he could have done that sort of damage and just walked away he did n't even have to pay for the damage he 'd done . |
| 16 | John Allerton is one that springs to mind , a lovely angler to watch and certainly not one who inspires the onlooker to think that he could do just as well . |
| 17 | The tsar was wrong to think that he could rely on payment for the help he had given Austria in 1849 . |
| 18 | We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending . |
| 19 | ‘ When I was a child , ’ she said , ‘ I used to think that you could look into anybody 's eyes , anybody 's , and see through them right into their soul . |
| 20 | To think that you could bring about a utopia , and perfect human nature in one way or another , is really a wildly er , optimistic and er , is in itself , er , some kind of illusion . |
| 21 | So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ ' |
| 22 | I was stupid to think that I could bring reason and truth into their lives and thoughts . |
| 23 | I regret if this remark has misled Mr Blair or you to think that I could preach at Kildalton as a Candidate . |
| 24 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I do n't know , but I 'd like to think that I could have pulled the trigger if I 'd had to . |
| 25 | Like all Americans she is both greedy and gullible — greedy for a title and gullible enough to think that I could love such a raw provincial chit as she is . |
| 26 | After a little nudge from me she remembered Lilian Parsons , seemed to think that I could be her surviving twin . |