Example sentences of "that [pron] think [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 2 | ‘ It boggles my mind that everyone thinks they can pull the wool over the eyes of a company that 's had 30 years experience in dicking rock bands . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |
| 4 | And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick . |
| 5 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 6 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 7 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 8 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 9 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 10 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 11 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
| 12 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 13 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 14 | ‘ There was everything between you … everything that I thought we had … in Seville … and here . |
| 15 | She even told Sybil that the frog in the school pond was enchanted , and poor Sybil was in such a state that I thought someone ought to teach Mildred a lesson . ‘ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 17 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 18 | I warned her that Drennan was trying to bribe your father with land and that I thought your father would accept the bribe ! ’ |
| 19 | They 're only some letters that I thought your mother would like to have ! ’ |
| 20 | Then I went out and bought some anaesthetic spray and applied it , but the pain was so excruciating that I thought my foot would fall off . |
| 21 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 22 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 23 | And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
| 25 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 26 | Its just that I thought you would n't come here any more … not after last night . ’ |
| 27 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 28 | And you look so topping in that dress that I thought you might be a sport . |
| 29 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 30 | ‘ I confess that I thought you 'd taken the boat . |