Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] think [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
| 2 | The Royal African Company came under criticism from the West India sugar planters , who clamoured for more slaves to be supplied without explaining how they would be paid for , and also from other English merchants who thought they could do a better job of supplying slaves . |
| 3 | Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them . |
| 4 | Former Top 40 presenter Tony Blackburn said : ‘ In the old days I think it meant something to be the Christmas No. 1 and there would be great excitement in the run-up to the last chart . |
| 5 | Some days I think I 'm only young — I fell straight away for her [ the baby ] — I used to think before I was married I 'd better get all the clothes I want now because I 'll never get them when I 'm married — but I was wrong , because I can really have all I want now … |
| 6 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 7 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 8 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 9 | I mean , some films I think they 're pathetic in so much that the story |
| 10 | This respondent was also concerned about the failure of social workers to work for rehabilitation , stating , ‘ There are lots of social workers who think it quite appropriate to take a child away from dodgy natural parents and work avidly towards replacing it with adoptive ones . ’ |
| 11 | Who 's got five different things they think they are important , they would like to change , they would like to stay the same , who 's got more than five , more than five ? |
| 12 | I suppose in some ways they thought I would not buckle , so they put even heavier pressure on some of the new MPs . |
| 13 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 14 | But there will obviously be sort of an ongoing training and so on because I , I know that in some ways I think it 's been very mixed and I qu I put |
| 15 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 16 | Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry . |
| 17 | ‘ There were some papers I thought you ought to see . |
| 18 | Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him . |
| 19 | For a few moments she thought she was trapped , with no way through the high walls that surrounded this part of the garden . |
| 20 | For a few moments she thought he had no intention of answering her as her whole being quivered with indignation that he should have the nerve to pass judgement on her when not even her closest friends knew her innermost thoughts and longings . |
| 21 | By December 1987 , having lost three successive general elections , plus some by-elections it thought it should have won , Labour was quite desperate . |
| 22 | The warts are all there too for without a few blemishes I think it would be a rather dull story . |
| 23 | The more I observe , the more different categories I think I discover , with different characteristics . |
| 24 | He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit . |
| 25 | There was only a tiny little row in between two streets , there was about six houses I think it was . |
| 26 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 27 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 28 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 29 | Like her mum , she 's sent off for a cat catalogue , she got it , you know within thirteen days I think it was . |
| 30 | And one of the last holidays I took , and I was on my own , I went to the United States for , and Canada for er the , the six weeks I think it was or eight weeks . |