Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Locke 's day it was normal and Locke 's contemporaries I think would have had no problem understanding this what he meant . |
| 2 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 3 | I do n't think I 've got many cards up here they 're in my bedroom I think let's have a look these are all done . |
| 4 | It 's difficult to measure in precise terms but having this employee assistance programme I think will help you attract staff , it 'll certainly help you retrain staff |
| 5 | The words I used may strike you as generous , or too romantic , but they are not inaccurate , merely inadequate . |
| 6 | The figure I think might have been higher if we had n't had some hot weather which er meant the fish were keeping rather low in the lochs , and it was difficult for the ospreys to find sufficient food . |
| 7 | When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales . |
| 8 | Although I know that the amount of exercise I do will keep me fit , these days I feel guilty about doing ‘ so little ’ exercise . |
| 9 | The voluntary sector I believe must accept those developments whilst at the same time , demanding effective regulation and monitoring to create a managed community market . |
| 10 | The Council I hope will do something about it , but that 's up to the Council , I do n't have the authority to do that . ’ |
| 11 | And a British teacher I knew used to point out to me the oddness of Chinese children 's drawing styles compared with those of Western children . |
| 12 | A few extracts I believe will suffice : March 11th , 1335 , he carried out an ordination , the following day , March 12th the first tonsure of seven clerks and on the 15th , another ordination . |
| 13 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 14 | ‘ I tell you the things I think will interest you . ’ |
| 15 | I glimpse things I think must come from behind ; but I 'm never very sure . |
| 16 | Once the sparring is over , both teams I feel will take risks . |
| 17 | There was one person I thought might come across with a few facts , Mahoney 's girl , Connie Fraser . |
| 18 | And the Horton I think will stand to benefit as much as any hospital , by the proposed N H S reforms in insuring that er money follows the patients , and that we do n't have these sorts of situations arising again , whereby when hospitals treat more patients they simply run out of money more quickly . |
| 19 | The changes I seek will strengthen America 's market systems , not weaken them , ’ Clinton said . |
| 20 | Still , I 'd always tried hard to be a good golfer , and playing off three handicap I knew would stand me in good stead . |
| 21 | Some people I know would revel in being able to say they looked straight down the barrel of a loaded gun . |
| 22 | I put it down , and I phoned the people I thought might have been the recipients of it , to make sure it was genuine , |
| 23 | Any artist I represent could tell me I am useless , but no one will ever be able to claim I stole from them , because I have never had the opportunity . |
| 24 | Boys seem to make an effort only if they are going into a situation where they know they might meet someone they fancy , whereas lots of girls I know will put on make-up just to go to the local shop ! |
| 25 | Some of the Members I interviewed would like wider shots and more panning and reaction shots . |
| 26 | Jenny I thought would ring . |
| 27 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 28 | Well , one thing I think will come out of it is that the Enquiry will say that this closure will have fairly cataclysmic affects on the economy of this city , I think that 's clear , and I think that will come out of it . |
| 29 | I have gone into such detail about individual patients to try to convince you first , that it can be misleading to categorize patients too narrowly into groups , and second , that the dual-route model I described can accommodate a wide variety of data from different individual cases . |
| 30 | ‘ Most men I know would hang a title round their necks for the whole world to see ! ’ |