Example sentences of "we think [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We thought everyone would be against the development , but opinion seems to be moving the other way , mainly thanks to Calder himself . |
| 2 | We thought they would stop , with the guns drawn , but they kept coming , shouting . |
| 3 | ‘ The scientists said , ‘ Oh , beware of the chiggers ’ , and the first day we went out , in our shorts and flip-flops , looking up in the trees for these chiggers — we thought they might be big furry things . |
| 4 | So first problem is one of serial correlation in this model right , if we estimated this model and things were as we thought they were this hypothes , these hypotheses were working and farmers were behaving erm , as we thought they might do , right , this model will automatically use serial correlation right . |
| 5 | Alright they do n't want to go to Chesterfield then we thought they could come here , look after the house , look after the house the same as we 'd look after it , and Val said this |
| 6 | We thought they must be making sure we had no hidden messages and Brian used to mock them , saying , ‘ The Kalashnikov is hidden in the bathroom . ’ |
| 7 | finally got to Monica and we thought that was enough , so we just wrote Monica , we thought they 'd accept that and they did n't . |
| 8 | But we thought we ought to tell you , Sir Henry . ’ |
| 9 | We had started fixing it by then and were hallucinating and everything so we thought we 'll stop taking speed and take smack instead . |
| 10 | ‘ For a time he was fighting for his life and we thought we might lose him . |
| 11 | We thought we might see you yesterday . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They had just finished shooting it , so we thought we might as well make use of it , ’ says Peter . |
| 13 | We were allowed to take the boat out ourselves by then as long as we wore life-jackets and we thought we might do that , later ; get in some fishing or just some pottering around . |
| 14 | So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’ |
| 15 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 16 | We thought we might have a chance . |
| 17 | And that was the sort of level of detail to which we thought we might need to go in those districts where it is demonstrated to us , of the district do need to be considered differently . |
| 18 | ‘ When we put the cage down on the grass and opened the door we thought we might have to urge him out , but not a bit of it . |
| 19 | ‘ We thought we might have to spend the night down there and that 's when we started getting a bit worried , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ A number of people asked us if we could save the ponds and we thought we might be able to do more than that . |
| 21 | So erm we thought we might go for a day did n't we ? |
| 22 | ‘ We thought we would only be away from our village for a few days , ’ she said . |
| 23 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 24 | We could n't sport the name of Dark or Phillips or Brown or Davies or any other Worcester paddler who went out to give their all but we thought we would have a go . |
| 25 | He 's always been a gentle little soul , very loving and friendly with everyone , but as he had to spend 3–4 hours every day on his own at home , we thought we would get another dog as company for him . |
| 26 | So we thought we would form one , just to see what happened . |
| 27 | ‘ We thought we would bring her over here for her first one , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Halstead Rotaract treasurer Emma Samms said : ‘ We thought we would do something different to mark the 25th anniversary of Rotaract . ’ |
| 29 | Whether it 's a knitted or fabric item , suitable fillings will be required so we thought we would tell you about a couple of products from Abbey Quilting Ltd , a company which specialises in wadding and filling products for craftwork . |
| 30 | ‘ BR used to organise these type of specials themselves but when they stopped doing them we thought we would step in , ’ added one of the organisers , Lancaster Railman Nigel Bryer . |