Example sentences of "think [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 2 | Certainly as far as Americans are concerned , a lot of our hotels do n't come up to the standards of service that they are used to , and certainly they do n't think they 're value for money . |
| 3 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 4 | It is all too easy to get people who will tell you the nice things , and after all there is not a lot that you can do about that , but those who will stand up without fear or favour and tell you , hopefully tactfully , that things are not really the way that everybody else thinks they are pearls beyond price . |
| 5 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 6 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 7 | Doing about sixty , seventy , normal speed , in hurry to get somewhere and er I I just sat there and erm all of a sudden I I thought I was miles past this other car and I started going in , just to let him go past , obviously and he 's I I did n't realise this other car was keeping up with me and I 've gone towards it and I thought sh I 'd looked in my mirror shit it 's still there ! |
| 8 | ‘ I thought you were part of the set-up there . ’ |
| 9 | I never thought you were sort of like , sort of like a rough boy . |
| 10 | I thought you , I thought you were sort of more , more or less settled in this |
| 11 | Perhaps they thought she was part of his troupe ? |
| 12 | ‘ I thought she was friends with everybody . |
| 13 | ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly . |
| 14 | At first I thought they was bits of paper or summat that someone chucked in , but when the big boat went past , they all flew off . |
| 15 | I thought they was pears at first and I got excited , cos I like pears , but they was n't . |
| 16 | At first she did not let them in ‘ because I thought they were drunks from the pub next door ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ When I first saw them I thought they were costermongers with their black and white trousers . |
| 18 | The normally staid Independent cleared its front page for a graphic , reminiscent of a medieval woodcut , depicting all stages in the evolution of the Cosmos , while the Sun announced that ‘ We Find the Secret of the Creation ’ and showed a mysterious egg-shaped blob with the caption ‘ AMAZING … the universe with ripples shown in the patchy areas ’ , presumably in case the readers thought they were patches in the rippled areas . |
| 19 | We thought they were angels in the home and that everything was marvellous . |
| 20 | Well , I thought it was kind of nice , it did n't ruin my life . ’ |
| 21 | Oh I thought it was Liam at first . |
| 22 | He thought it was part of the nightmare at first , though up to then there 'd been nothing much to scream about . |
| 23 | It had strange obtuse teeth , he thought it was part of an old church clock . |
| 24 | If Gilbert thought it was part of her duty to track down Amy or help her in any way , then she would do so . |
| 25 | Someone was shaking her violently , shouting at her , and at first she thought it was part of her nightmare . |
| 26 | I thought it was quarter past eight |
| 27 | ‘ At first I thought it was steam from the coffee machine . |
| 28 | Gone are the days when guys thought it was girlie to be groomed , the new man of the 90's makes a noise about the fact that he knows how to look good and what 's more these guys now have more beautifying products than old socks ! |
| 29 | She thought it was Swimmer of Lakes for a moment , but her horse had already returned to open land and was quietly grazing to the east . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't had my hair cut for about a year and neither has Meera so I thought it was time for a change . ’ |