Example sentences of "[subord] i think [pron] " in BNC.

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1 What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school .
2 What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school .
3 Just when Tod has established our relationship with Irene on a secure footing , the kind of set-up that any sane man would kill for , with her punctual visits and affectionate phone calls , the movies we enjoy together , the fine dining , the peace and safety ( the forgiveness ) that her presence confers , plus the exquisitely torpid lovemaking which takes place right on the button every couple of months or so , and reaching the stage , now , where I think we can tackle her , gently but firmly , about her untidiness around the house , because it 's best to get these things out in the open , not to let them rankle and fester , and so on-guess what .
4 where I think we 've er lost track of about eight or nine people .
5 Where I think we have tried to do something interesting is in this idea of giving the student a , a whole year 's experience in the school to help them become professionalised , rather than the normal practice , the traditional practice of school practice , which meant going twelve , sixteen weeks into perhaps two bytes , into a school , and this does mean the student can get integrated with the school community and take part in the extramural life of the school , get involved in games and school plays and school outings in a way that 's not possible if they 're in and out on that short basis .
6 Where I think you are , where you get into problems with that , are things like , assertiveness training , negotiating , Well assertiveness training is that a competence based thing or not ?
7 But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . "
8 Except I think I would like to get out , break away , as it were , and see the world .
9 ‘ No , nothing of importance , except I think you want to keep an eye on Billy the welder .
10 We plan to get bigger but we will continue to be a niche player , although I think we can be a very successful one .
11 It 's a bit of oh my God , I did n't realize we let ourselves in for that much and I , I do n't think that 's quite fair of us , although I think we , we had a but some operating companies were , have certainly realized that they had erm material potential liabilities down the track led to redesign .
12 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
13 Thank you the only is that you will have seen organised generally supported that although I think we could support it a lot better than we have .
14 And er , although I think we encourage managers to be generous in terms of again part-time working and time off , I think our corporation , and now I go to the United States , has probably taken a more enlightened attitude than we have so far .
15 Some some of them actually give you exemption from all of them although I think they 're
16 Although I think they .
17 24 February 83 , p 532 ) , although I think your illustration is a little out of date .
18 Well that 's another you know route really al although I think your architects
19 Although I think your idea of success , Melissa , is quite obviously very different from mine . ’
20 Of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists , however , I confess to having listed only Iain Banks , Kazuo Ishiguro ( both of whom appeared in the third edition ) and Jeanette Winterson , although I think there is scope too for Will Self , Nicholas Shakespeare and maybe Ben Okri .
21 If I may erm we , we , we , we did attend er er er a briefing and myself and James , unfortunately Margaret was unable to be present on that day , although I think she 's had a separate briefing or there is a separate briefing being proposed .
22 Oh she has enough certificates to of gone to teachers ' training college , now that , I always feel although I think she 's quite happy now , but for myself , for myself and I 'm always er tempted by the fact that they always have twelve weeks ' holiday you know , I mean in one go the teachers
23 He was not amused , although I think his pride was hurt more than anything else , but he did move his chair this time — right back into the second row !
24 We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us .
25 The originator of the tapes has clearly decided to make his tape deck pay for itself ( although I think he could take a few hints on how to eliminate unwanted hum and noise ) and the result can only be described as a rip off .
26 I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it .
27 I 'm a little bit surprised Stone has n't tried to get a bit closer to him although I think he 's been given the job of tracking Agnew who 's more of an attacking midfield player .
28 I 'm not ambitious , although I think you are . ’
29 He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point .
30 Although I think it 's with us having the None Of A Family ourselves that I 've adjusted so well .
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