Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most moving thing that ever happened to them , they say — but secretly I think it is all to do with stealing thunder from the women . |
| 2 | But presumably he thought , if her relationships at home were kept in good working order , he would be less at risk from her attentions — the conceit of him . |
| 3 | So there is a flow of American source in , but less I think in terms of building a new factory on green field , a green site , and more of erm , buying an existing operation |
| 4 | I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen |
| 5 | I know you found your tent , but perhaps you thought this might be a more comfortable bivouac than my cottage ? |
| 6 | But perhaps you think I had no right to be . ’ |
| 7 | But perhaps you think he would have changed something if he could ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 9 | Omar Pound must know the full story , but rightly I think , though surely austerely , he has left it for us to piece together . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a long story , but basically I thought they 'd get on together . |
| 11 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 12 | I think later on perhaps it 's easier erm but basically I think boys need to be discouraged from assuming that they know what women 's position is . |
| 13 | At first she sympathised a bit , but basically she thinks it 's because I dare to walk around and look people in the eye — I 'm too challenging or flirty or something . |
| 14 | ‘ But personally I think he 's split , now his organisation 's blown apart . |
| 15 | But some of the children there erm , somebody must have been very , very , optimistic because we put a lot , a lot of presents in there , but anyway I think it was a superb night , and , and , and the meeting of er , to get together in the fire station afterwards , quite , in the Price Room was very good . |
| 16 | But nevertheless I think that these colleagues , if they look carefully at the fundamentals of their own assumptions , will find that they are begging just as many questions as I am . |
| 17 | I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it . |
| 18 | But nevertheless I think it looks very attractive in that way . |
| 19 | I mean realize that would be a very bad analogy with women , but nevertheless I think just the analogy on numbers is not a good enough argument for women . |
| 20 | And in the twelfth race , the six forty five erm West Mead Ricky erm adversely drawn in trap four , but nevertheless I think he 's a little bit better class , so that 's the fourth leg of our Radio Oxford yankee erm West Mead Ricky , that 's the ten twenty . |
| 21 | I think maybe you could do with a little more symmetry , particularly on the roof area , but generally I think that 's very good . |
| 22 | But generally I think it will become better . |
| 23 | ‘ I agree , I agree , ’ he said , ‘ but not everybody thinks that way . ’ |
| 24 | Obviously there 's others that do n't think so , but not everybody thinks so . |
| 25 | I had to admit that , given my experiences of the evening , it remained a logical possibility that there might be some kind of entity out there skulking in some dark corner of the Cathedral , but somehow I thought not . |
| 26 | He wo n't want to , but somehow I think he will . " |
| 27 | Mind you the shit I used to get away with at school , you know , just winding the teachers up and like generally taking the piss , I 'd always pay attention and I 'd always , always get good marks but somehow I think they seem to take pissing about slightly more seriously here . |
| 28 | She was guarded then ; but gradually he thought of a plan . |
| 29 | ‘ Look — it 's hard to explain clearly when you 're shattered but yesterday I thought you were a ghoul . |
| 30 | Erm but like I think we 've done it right . |