Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] i think [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The more I observe , the more different categories I think I discover , with different characteristics . |
| 3 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 4 | Look at that little boy there in the leather coat and the little glasses I think it looks lovely . |
| 5 | Hm , quite like the white ones I think I probably like the white ones better Am 's , let's have the white ones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Congratulating us , the senior officer said , " Well lads I think you deserve a drink for that . " |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , apart from the potted shrimps I think I can assure you , Inspector , that one way and another all the other dishes were shared . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 14 | Although Norman 's actually ticked that the project manager was gon na be responsible for certain things I think it 's one of these things that need to be brought out . |
| 15 | Out of the short-wave receiver comes a scratchy-hum , and for a few bleary seconds I think it 's a radio station closed down for the night . |
| 16 | Yes , I think talking about the stiff upper lippers I think we have to work with people where they are an if that 's where they are at the moment , that 's fine . |
| 17 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |