Example sentences of "[conj] think [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These criticisms are commonly voiced by those who have some political or academic axe to grind and who are , or think that they are , the blessed recipients of some God-given intuition which enables them to divine the actual mind of Parliament , no matter how obscure or equivocal the language in which it has chosen to express itself . |
| 2 | This introduction to Piggy makes you immediately either sympathise with him or think that he was a pathetic little boy . |
| 3 | Everyone will either sympathize with your terrible squint or think that you are offering some form of invitation . |
| 4 | If you have any queries or think that you may not be obtaining your full pension entitlement , you should contact your local Social Security office as soon as possible . |
| 5 | I have now had to learn to cope with my problem and think before I react , remembering that I am now an adult . ’ |
| 6 | we shouldn we should n't get carried away , however , by this er focus on its managerial agencies , agency , and think that everything it does in this respect is conscious , because a lot of the processes that occur in the ego are actually not conscious . |
| 7 | Some philosophers know a lot about bells and think that everyone who hears ringing noises in their ears must have bats in the belfry . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly they have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful for preparing the report , believe the report to be more descriptive and judgmental and think that their schools were less threatened about the review process . |
| 9 | We start with the belief that we have these qualities and think that they must be recognised both by government and our clients . |
| 10 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 11 | What they must not do is to get in there at half time and think that they have done their job . |
| 12 | you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part . |
| 13 | I do n't understand them and think that I 'm never going to meet anybody nice that will accept me as a single parent . |
| 14 | MH : Occasionally I see something that you 've missed and think that it 's a lot better than you do . |
| 15 | ‘ You see , ’ he said kindly , ‘ it is one thing for someone like yourself who has always had an easy life — up to now , that is — to speak glibly about suffering women , and think that there is an easy way out — ’ |
| 16 | SIR — We share Coulter 's concerns ( May 8 , p 1185 ) about the general lack of objective assessment of menstrual blood loss and think that there are two reasons behind this . |
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| 18 | It always it it is always a thing that is i within football , y you get a goal and then you get in behind the ball and think that you you 're safe and you 're alright . |
| 19 | Other people , for all that we may claim to understand them , still have an irreducibly transcendent ‘ core ’ — expressed in the fact that we can never enter their minds and think as they do . |
| 20 | We descended in human but not mechanical silence into the Inferno of the Friday evening rush hour , the appropriate punishment , I have long since thought , for the millions in that city and in every other who live and think as we did . |
| 21 | But at the end of all I sigh and think if I could but see old England again , and the dear , dear treasures it contains , I would contentedly sit down at my working table and stroke , stroke away to the end of the chapter , that is health permitting . ’ |
| 22 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 23 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 24 | And I said you sit quietly and think and we shall do the same . |
| 25 | ‘ I suspect a lot of them get carried away and think because they have just passed their test they are great drivers . |
| 26 | On receipt of Gaskell 's temperance rhymes , he wrote : ‘ I have read your temperance rhymes with much pleasure and can not but think that they must do good ’ ( 1840 ) . |
| 27 | I should like you to meet Augusta , but think that your two worlds are so different — And that is why I think there was surely never anything serious between us two … . |
| 28 | That is what people sometimes have in mind , but think that it should be done by internment . |
| 29 | ‘ But think when they came here — just at the time Liam Shakespeare disappeared — and — ‘ |
| 30 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |