Example sentences of "we used to think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believing sentences and slotting the information that they convey into our knowledge base ( for instance , what we used to think about the referent of she ) is another story . |
| 2 | Then , putting her knuckles to her head , indicating her brain , she added : ‘ Between you , me and the gatepost , we used to think they had a screw loose . ’ |
| 3 | We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending . |
| 4 | We used to think there was a beginning and a middle and an end ’ ( in Woolf 1953 : 94 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes we used to think that he was a bit too shy and quiet . |
| 6 | He was never any trouble but we used to think perhaps he should go out a bit more , ’ say Brian Gedge . |
| 7 | Gedge writes : ‘ Guess who I say by your house just the other day/ That kid we used to think was mad , but now he looks okay . ’ |
| 8 | We might find it hard today to agree on a description of the differences between women and men — and perhaps they are less marked than we used to think . |
| 9 | We used to think it must be Polish because two other patients in adjacent beds were Poles . |
| 10 | The questions are more complicated than we used to think . |
| 11 | John , general secretary , replying on behalf of the C E C. Well we used to think whatever else was gon na change , at least the pensions were secure but as this bate debate shows not any more . |
| 12 | James 's initial attempts to woo Dissenters and erstwhile Whigs , it is now being recognised , were more successful than we used to think . |
| 13 | These orange ti we , we used to think they were lovely . |
| 14 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 15 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 16 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 17 | If so , we are dealing with a more Quixotic , romantic or principled figure than some of us used to think . |