Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] they think " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
| 2 | ‘ The Chief Constable was able to divulge to me that they think Gray was killed last Thursday night . |
| 3 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
| 4 | People would n't be so nice to me if they thought I was so lucky , but it 's fun to see their faces when I bring certain special ones back now and then . ’ |
| 5 | An ardent Anglophile , Tritsis used frequently to astonish British journalists with the breadth of his knowledge about Westminster , asking them if they thought Enoch Powell or Tony Benn the more radical figure . |
| 6 | ‘ And I hardly will get to know them if they think I 'm there on some different basis to themselves , ’ she had said . |
| 7 | Sometimes he played soldiers with them and they thought little of his plans for defence in depth . |
| 8 | Bought a Vax , they said no they 're a con do n't worry , he said with a little bit of luck you 'll get one that 'll be free , you 'll have to give a report on it once a month , then about after nine months they give it to you if they thought |
| 9 | You 've not got ta be timid , y'know , because obviously people will try and browbeat you and intimidate you if they think they can . ’ |
| 10 | But the jury of neighbours who decide upon your fertility might not look too kindly upon you if they think you are going to bring up your children as Jehovah 's Witnesses or Servants of Baal , or use the terror of hell as a way of controlling them : or beat the soles of their feet if they get the Koran wrong . |
| 11 | a lot of these places , they start you if they think you 've had experience and all that , but it do n't always work as well as them that ai n't had experience . |
| 12 | Even if you 're in a non-union company , they will fight for you if they think you 've got a case . |
| 13 | Team appraisal thus involves sharing with colleagues your own strengths and weaknesses and what you and they think could or should be done about them . |
| 14 | Some people do tend to run away from you , they 're afraid of you because they think you 're wild . |
| 15 | They wo n't come up to you because they think you 're dirty , because you got pregnant and you 're only fourteen or fifteen , but if you 're seventeen or eighteen it does n't matter , you 're old . |
| 16 | They come to you because they think that you can stop it and save them . |
| 17 | are quite prepared to be a minority of one if they think they are right |
| 18 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 19 | You used to surprise some of them because they thought they 'd done it before you 'd notice . ’ |
| 20 | Although it could have been a genuine geographical variation , the fear was that staff were failing to record them because they thought this might lead to unresolvable problems which would jeopardise planning . |
| 21 | Sometimes parents fail to give the true reason why something upsets them because they think the youngster is not old enough to know about such things . |
| 22 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 23 | Mr Davidson , who runs a pizza takeaway on High Northgate , Darlington , said : ‘ They stopped me because they thought the engine numbers were filed away and the car was stolen . |
| 24 | But I said Cheryl if we do sell these tickets to whoever and they think they round yours , I said they can , you know what she said no I do n't want anyone else , I said that 's fair enough . |
| 25 | They — whoever they were — had underestimated her if they thought she could be cowed into submission by threats and violence . |
| 26 | So I ca n't see that it 's justified you keep letting your best players go people do get illusioned and people are n't fools , they 're gon na stop away are n't they if they thinking they 're not doing anything to get going anywhere . |
| 27 | What was to stop anyone just shooting him if they thought he was worthless to them ? |
| 28 | They like analyzing and they like sort of practising or getting involved with complex things sort of complex piece of work very , they 're really happy in the training session to get involved whereas some people if you put something very hard , they 'll actually back away from it wo n't they cos they think well this is new , I do n't really understand this , whereas theorists will ac they actually enjoy they enjoy the stretch they enjoy the challenge . |
| 29 | They wanted to get rid of her because they thought she was an interfering busybody . |
| 30 | Tommy , inset left , killed him when they thought he owned them £25 . |