Example sentences of "[Wh det] they think be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and the vet ( who turned out to be an Irishman too ) drinking whiskey which they thought was brandy because I 'd put it into a brandy bottle … |
| 2 | Making no mention of sex , she asked the children to tell her about anything that had happened to them at school which they thought was unfair . |
| 3 | The Germans are said to have shot 100 French hostages in reprisal for this sinking which they thought was the work of the Resistance . |
| 4 | Some of the people who complain most bitterly about the community charge are those who discover after their homes have been repossessed that they must pay the charge not only on their new property — because it is imposed on the individual — but on the property which they lost , and which they thought was now the responsibility of the building society . |
| 5 | Member states could however veto any proposal which they thought was detrimental to their economies , therefore very little progress to harmonise to common European standards took place . |
| 6 | What we have , it seems , is a Court–Country division cutting across party , but one that is blurred by the fact that some old Tories ( even though backbenchers ) opposed a measure which they thought was an encroachment on the royal prerogative , whilst some Whigs ( even those close to the Court ) felt obliged to support a measure which reflected old Whig principles . |
| 7 | On the sixth day , with the water supply exhausted and no hope of a patrol arriving , they decided to walk to the nearest British lines which they thought were 200 miles to the east . |
| 8 | Now researchers at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine in Oxford say they have found what they call a candidate gene which they think is likely to make someone vulnerable to asthma . |
| 9 | Everyone arrives with a stack of singles which they think are worth considering for the playlist . |
| 10 | They grow out of their clothes very quickly or they have clothes which they think are no longer fashionable . |
| 11 | Now what has happened here is that on the previous public enquiry over the Tetsworth site , Tetsworth , Great Milton and various other Parish Councils have the defence of producing sites which they think are appropriate or better than their own site , and they mentioned Wheatley . |
| 12 | And they believe that 's another eye as it were , towards their spirit which they think 's , you know it 's a middle eye of , of |
| 13 | What , what they thought is that all the ones that |
| 14 | What they thought is because he 's assessing them and she 's , they 're assessing us while he 's assessing them . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) . |
| 16 | They 're amazed that what they thought was a quiet little Swedish story appears round the world the next day , ’ says Mr McGovern . |
| 17 | Three faces lit up , beaming in upon what they thought was a crucial fact . |
| 18 | An inquest in Lancaster had earlier been told that by the time the information was received , Lancashire Police had spent £250,000 investigating what they thought was the murder of John Threlfall , 18 . |
| 19 | It exploded at 1.10am , seconds after two police officers sent to inspect what they thought was an abandoned white van under the flyover received the warning . |
| 20 | Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky . |
| 21 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 22 | People walking across what they thought was firm snow would fall through into fast running streams that had n't even been there before . |
| 23 | Terrified of making the slightest slip — Kinnock and the rest played safe — or what they thought was safe . |
| 24 | They did what they thought was best in the circumstances . ’ |
| 25 | A stunned silence fell upon the room as they focused their attention on what they thought was princess Voluptua . |
| 26 | She and Mrs Taylor went around the shops ordering what they thought was necessary and Dad and his cronies , Fred the lamplighter and his workmate Willie Turner , went along to The Golden Cup to order the drink . |
| 27 | In fact , what they thought was : . |
| 28 | There have also been at least five hospitalisations in the North-west recently , all people who became catatonic after taking what they thought was Ecstasy . |
| 29 | When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route . |
| 30 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |