Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] think [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 7 | The more I observe , the more different categories I think I discover , with different characteristics . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 10 | When they see headscarves on Muslim girls they think it means repression , but it means the opposite . |
| 11 | erm and they should comment this week about what extra bits they think they could perhaps cover . |
| 12 | If you talk to any male politicians they think you 're crazy . |
| 13 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 14 | Look at that little boy there in the leather coat and the little glasses I think it looks lovely . |
| 15 | Hm , quite like the white ones I think I probably like the white ones better Am 's , let's have the white ones . |
| 16 | And his toe-nails were long and curved , like the horns of a goat , reminding Melanie of the cloven hooves she thought he might have had . |
| 17 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 18 | SCO claims it was misunderstood all those long months we thought it was decommitting from ACE , shuffling the MIPS work back to DEC and favouring Intel . |
| 19 | Congratulating us , the senior officer said , " Well lads I think you deserve a drink for that . " |
| 20 | ‘ If we can go through the Christmas programme , with games against Crystal Palace and Chelsea coming up , and get good results I think we 'll get out of it . |
| 21 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 22 | Of regular smokers , 71 per cent thought their dads would not disapprove of smoking , compared with 8 per cent of regular smokers who thought he would disapprove . |
| 23 | So workmen have very irksome hours of work , unsocial hours I think they call them now , one of the most unsocial is the night shift . |
| 24 | There were a couple of little bits , small repairs I thought I 'd tackle . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , apart from the potted shrimps I think I can assure you , Inspector , that one way and another all the other dishes were shared . ’ |
| 26 | You must take every opportunity to discuss the practical problems with your doctor and the social workers , occupational therapists and physiotherapists , to take advantage of their experience of dealing with similar situations , and to let them know if there are any particular difficulties you think you might be facing . |
| 27 | Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates . |
| 28 | If this new regulation comes through they 'll be part of a new seat but if in fact they do n't have this regulation come into effect they 'll belong to another s and when you 've had in fact in Southend say the lowest recorded percentage voting of any constituency in England at the last Euro elections I think it 's terrible important we should in fact explain to people whether this is likely to happen . |
| 29 | ‘ For a time there were certain roles I thought I should n't do . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In other words you thought I might be better than you ? ’ she said softly . |