Example sentences of "think [pron] [modal v] [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 'd take to it . |
| 2 | erm , so that if , if they then go to an appeal er , I was talking to this planning officer and I was saying that I think I 'll consult them , he said I do n't think you 'll need to he said , and of what you 've done so far is pretty good and I can get access to all the letters that have been written in , in objecting into the into the homes |
| 3 | Do you think you could speak to them on my behalf ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You may think you can lie to me , but you ca n't go on lying to yourself , ’ he said with calm assurance . |
| 5 | Had she really thought she could talk to me ? |
| 6 | You 'd have thought it would occur to them to make it fire-proof , as well . |
| 7 | So we 've got a pile of bones , a pile of building material , lumps of wood , what do you think we might do to them next ? |
| 8 | For I do not think they will talk to me , not without encouragement . |
| 9 | Since the manufacturers of ‘ Summer 's Eve ’ have complained to you about my comments on their product , I thought I 'd copy to you this letter sent to their PR representative when she sent me literature and samples . |
| 10 | Cos I 'll er thought I 'd explain to you what happens with tetanus . |
| 11 | He then continued : ‘ Instead of boring you with yet more politics , I thought I 'd talk to you about my recent trip to Southern Africa . ’ |
| 12 | So I thought I 'd write to you too . |
| 13 | But I thought you 'd turn to me for comfort — for reassurance . |
| 14 | Er we thought we could work to it and we thought we had a different rule for timekeeping er and we did n't check the calculations . |
| 15 | Rosemary Burns never thought it would happen to her . |
| 16 | ‘ Never thought it would happen to me ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You always read about others getting these awards , but I never thought it would happen to me . ’ |
| 18 | I never thought it would happen to me ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I never thought it would happen to me , but I have been left quite a large sum in a will . |
| 20 | Everyone they knew was so amazed — ‘ I never thought it would happen to you ! ’ |
| 21 | And then suddenly he did stop and she was all sticky and messy and she thought he would speak to her now and comfort her or beg her in his whisper to kiss him , as he had done under the bridge the other nights they 'd met . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you think he will listen to you ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know which is worse , that you do n't give a damn about respecting your commitment to her , or that you did n't think it would matter to me that you were — were trying to lure me into bed while all the time , you knew that you and she — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't think it would matter to you any more than it did before . ’ |
| 25 | He did n't think it could happen to me or that it could be a blot on our landscape . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think anyone can talk to him at the moment . |
| 27 | I think I 'll talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'll , I 'll , then I 'll pass them . |
| 28 | Em I think I 'll talk to you now |
| 29 | I think I 'd talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'd give you their name and telephone number but I 'd have to speak to them first but I would n't just give out the name and telephone number on an ad hoc basis . |
| 30 | 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 . |