Example sentences of "[adv] i think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 2 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 3 | Mostly I thought about going with my dad . |
| 4 | Well yes it is certainly fascinating to hear the views of , of members an and indeed it , it 's tempting to go on I think about or personal experience of floods , but this is not the time or the place I would suggest to do that erm strategic planning seems to me has been the venue for discussions with Southern Water Authority with the National Rivers Authority itself , we are the committee that tries to look many , many years ahead . |
| 5 | The the festival I th went on I think for for three summers . |
| 6 | Erm we did get a woman later on I think in this little cash desk where the money used to go in the machine you know and er , but you 'd go in and you would have , it used to intrigue me that er you 'd go in and the , the dairy goods was all one side and you , you would , you would , my brother and I would have our lists and it was , we were petrified that we case we made a mistake you know . |
| 7 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 8 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Haply I think on thee , and then my state , like to the lark at break of day arising from sun and earth , sings hymns at Heaven 's gate : for thy sweet love remember 'd such wealth brings , that then I scorn to change my state with kings . ’ |
| 10 | Suddenly I thought of Anne and felt impelled to rebel . |
| 11 | Others have a bit of a tough time especially I think with ladies |
| 12 | But that 's suggestive enough I think to s That 's probably what 's causing your breathless even if you do n't notice it and you 're compensating . |
| 13 | just pinch her hand , give her a firm handshake because you 've got about ninety seconds in which to make your first impression and of the ninety seconds about ninety five percent of that time is made through visual images and that can be your dress sense , the way you carry yourself , present yourself , erm body language , do n't invade his personal space , only I think about erm I think about twelve , twelve seconds off of ninety seconds , or there thereabouts is spent on what you say . |
| 14 | When the excitement had died down I thought about my family , of all their help and sacrifices over the years and of the hardships they had undergone to bring us all up . |
| 15 | ‘ I still do miss her so much , but when I 'm down I think of the way she kept so cheerful after losing Dad , although she missed him terribly … so I try to keep cheerful for her . ’ |
| 16 | But not so much I think er with a lot of henhouses and that they were better battened down I think after the first year . |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously I think about it , every East German has at some time thought about it , or still does . |
| 18 | So I thought about what had happened to me and to people I knew , and put it all in the book . |
| 19 | So I thought about using porcelain instead . |
| 20 | So I thought to myself , ‘ Right , I 'll have one more stab at it . |
| 21 | So I thought to myself ‘ I must make a change ’ . |
| 22 | Well I rang you just in case you know I do n't want yo how we need the money so I thought to myself Cornwall , twenty eight ? |
| 23 | I mean if it , if it I mean originally he said to me it was part time so I thought to myself well that 'll be perfect , just get her back into the flow again . |
| 24 | Anyway , er so I thought for a , I 've had a large of the press today which is , it 's a very tense case indeed . |
| 25 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 26 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 27 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 28 | So I think about a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 29 | So I think for this run I 'd better press on with the book . ’ |
| 30 | So I think for the time being , if you allow us , we will find out which tables we want and then we will fund raise for them and get the money for them , okay . |