Example sentences of "that [pron] think [pers pn] " 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 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 11 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 12 | ‘ There was everything between you … everything that I thought we had … in Seville … and here . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 17 | Its just that I thought you would n't come here any more … not after last night . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | And you look so topping in that dress that I thought you might be a sport . |
| 20 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 21 | ‘ I confess that I thought you 'd taken the boat . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 23 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 24 | But I di , I did n't realise that I thought you were actually . |
| 25 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
| 26 | You know when I when I first thought of that I thought you know I 'd let us keep it . |
| 27 | Not that I thought he understood the music that much , but it was the image of he people behind the music , because people like Charlie Mingus are quite characters . |
| 28 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 29 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 30 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |