Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] think [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have .
2 I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should .
3 And then , that I did n't think he had any deep feelings , but he had .
4 I replied that I did n't think I would be a very good secretary but that one day I would like to run my own gallery .
5 Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly .
6 I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’
7 ‘ That song had so many lyrics and different types of music in there , that I did n't think it 'd go the distance .
8 I was very open-minded towards drugs then and I would try anything that was going provided that I did n't think it was too dangerous … and I did like to analyse the thing , the substances , through literature .
9 ‘ Publicly I said that I did n't think it was possible , but that was mainly to take some pressure off me .
10 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 !
11 The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council .
12 When we met I told him that I did not think he had anything more urgent to attend to , and if he thought he had something more important , then his priorities were wrong .
13 How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers .
14 And the best of everything , Ronni found herself thinking , though wishing with all her heart that she had n't thought it .
15 ‘ But I feel annoyed that she had not thought it all through .
16 She could n't believe that she had actually thought him human occasionally .
17 It was robust at times , but there was never anything kinky about our relationship ’ and that she did not think he was capable of what he had been accused .
18 ‘ She said in her letter that she did n't think we could be happy living at Maythorpe House , that she 'd be lonely and probably would n't make me a very good wife .
19 Australian sprinter Raeleen Boyle once said that she did n't think she 'd ‘ ever felt totally comfortable with my lifestyle since I gave up running . ’
20 Not that she did n't think I was really rude before .
21 Prune said dismally that she did n't think it was right to stand between a man and his freedom .
22 ‘ 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 — ’
23 Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’
24 It was vital that they did not think he had actually seen what he was about to say Robert had seen when the electric light flooded the converted attic .
25 Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark .
26 The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties .
27 Grudgingly , Brian was forced to say that he had always thought it odd , but if reticence about her past was the way his wife wanted it , then he had been prepared to accept the situation .
28 And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart .
29 Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home .
30 But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) .
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