Example sentences of "this [noun] [conj] i think [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I c I , I tell this story cos I think it illustrates it very much , I expect most of you have er if you have n't been you 've heard of Dale in Derbyshire , and it 's this river with a , a lovely walk either side of the river , you walk along the side and then you come to the point where there 's a bend in the river and there 's these gorgeous great enormous stepping stones .
2 so er that 's old is it Shepherd and Metzler No it 's not in this case but I think they invented the task , yes they did good old Shepherd and Metzler
3 I persuaded her to come on this course because I thought it would be a change for us both . ’
4 There are many good makes of boots in this category though I think I would opt for a pair of Scarpa boots because they will accept the wonderful Yeti gaiters ( £50 ) and are excellent in their own right .
5 So could you phone up er your office because I cleared the fact that we can pay with this card cos I thought you might look at this and say well look it 's expired .
6 I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party .
7 I wanted to let you know of this initiative because I thought it might be possible to :
8 ‘ I did pop round for a chat with him earlier this evening and I thought he seemed a bit jumpy .
9 Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface .
10 Well I 'd like an answer to this questions because I think it 's fairly fundamental .
11 I came this morning because I think you may be able to help me from your knowledge-of the family and of the area .
12 Erm I 've been out as on the er line three this morning and I think there 's another little bit we ought to buy but we 'll discuss that as we 're going on eh ?
13 It , the bill was hundred and thirty eight quid last month and it 'll be more than that this month and I think my yearly allowance is about three hundred , you know , so I 'm rapidly running out .
14 But that actually occurred this week and I think we 're gon na see more of that .
15 I think he said er he , he 's got ta pay his road tax this week and I think he said it was two hundred and seventy five
16 So on that ground I feel would be very worried by by promoting the right to buy , erm I 've said everything I want to I did n't really want to elongate this this er this debate and I think it 's but I think , I do n't believe that Councillor mentioned the the the er the .
17 I met this man and I thought he was wonderful — so nice to me and everything when I first met him .
18 ‘ I do n't like this abbey and I think there 's some sort of link between this place and Sir John Santerre . ’
19 They have differences and similarities in dealing with this subject and I think they both succeed in making their readers consider the subject more deeply .
20 Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’
21 We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things .
22 So history 's a very much broader and more popular subject in this country than I think it is in almost any other country in the world .
23 If they ca n't get sufficient profit out of supplying gas in the U K I think British Gas is on the verge of withdrawing from the gas market in the U K , and that a lot of jobs in this country and I think we ought to be aware of that and I think we ought to be campaigning to make sure that does n't happen .
24 We were much better ‘ staffed ’ this time so I think we were more efficient and our pilfering/loss rate which I felt had not been bad last time was down to only two items this time , even better .
25 Er perhaps it is impossible to answer it in this forum but I think it remains an open question sir .
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