Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] think i " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 2 | ‘ For six years you have dogged me wherever I went and now you have turned up here , where I thought I had found a safe haven . ’ |
| 3 | Or I thought I heard these words , for Captain was growling so fiercely , I was n't sure . |
| 4 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 5 | ‘ Norman Lamont is a good friend of the NHS and I am sure — or I think I am sure — that he will prove it , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 6 | The third floor was a no-smoking floor or I think I might have started smoking again after six years ' abstinence . |
| 7 | ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . |
| 8 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
| 9 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 10 | Except I think I would like to get out , break away , as it were , and see the world . |
| 11 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 12 | As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself . |
| 13 | Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today . |
| 14 | Although I thought I did … |
| 15 | I had been greatly amused , although I think I should not have been . |
| 16 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
| 17 | Although I think I 'll play a few games with them . |
| 18 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 19 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 20 | In this particular instance , I casually ‘ looked through my window ’ and muttered to myself that I thought I saw ‘ some people ’ outside my house . |
| 21 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 22 | My son was so feeble that I thought I would lose him at birth . |
| 23 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 24 | My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 27 | I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with . |
| 28 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 29 | Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . |
| 30 | ‘ Only that I thought I might move house in a couple of years . |