Example sentences of "think [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cracked jokes she did n't think were very funny . |
| 2 | Roughly how many kilometres of steel rails , besides engines and rolling stock , do you think were needed for building the Indian railways ? |
| 3 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 4 | Erm the daring to the daring to say things which I did , did think were true , but I knew were true because many of them were facts . |
| 5 | Now which other four do you think were the key if you had to pick out six major ones , yeah . |
| 6 | Did they have any erm raids that were that you 'd think were directed towards the airport at all , were there any incidents of this kind ? |
| 7 | No , because things come up unexpectedly , so things will become urgent that maybe you did n't think were important , but have just suddenly emerged . |
| 8 | What did they think was going to happen after the last British troops evacuated the Canal Zone on 13 June 1956 ? |
| 9 | Eva was only two then , and all I could think was that he 'd stolen my little girl . |
| 10 | At the time all I could think was , three days — anyone can put up with anything for three days . |
| 11 | Peter Nutting , who led the association of Outhwaite members to a succesful settlement , said he sympathised with Gooda Walker names , but ‘ if the names were not going to pay these calls , who did they think was going to pay them ? ’ |
| 12 | All I could think was , stop the world ; I thought he was going to blow the Championship . |
| 13 | And that created a slight sort of canary-hopping attitude to policy-making which I do n't think was very good and in the end I think Mrs Thatcher felt the same . |
| 14 | What other men might say or think was nothing to him ; his detachment would carry him far above earthly matters . |
| 15 | ‘ Who do you think was wearing a purple knitted hat with a bobble on top ? — Mrs Wilberforce ! ’ |
| 16 | He gave me three games — which I did n't think was a fair chance . |
| 17 | By the end of the day Harriet was not surprised when the girl went to bed early , pleading a headache which her mother did not think was entirely due to gin and tonic at ten thirty in the morning . |
| 18 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 19 | ‘ Parliament has deprived the courts of any power of detention of a person of this age or what many people might think was any effective punishment for that grave crime . ’ |
| 20 | All I did n't want to happen was for him to become violent , which I did n't think was ever on the cards . |
| 21 | All I could think was that he did n't look like Robert Redford . |
| 22 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 23 | What do you think was so particular about having stairs ? |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing , ’ he said , ‘ you might think was a hand unless it is still your distress . |
| 25 | And why do you think was that ? |
| 26 | Cheeks smeared by tears and mascara , she was helping him to stand and all he could think was How can she still have mascara after where she 's been ? |
| 27 | But all I could think was , would we be allowed to film him ? |
| 28 | in Brazil the archbishop now in his late eighties I should think was renowned everywhere said that there 's a quote here from him on the Traidcraft leaflet . |
| 29 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 30 | Sunday trading , for example , is something that one would think was a national matter with the subsidiarity rule applying . |