Example sentences of "we think they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thought they would stop , with the guns drawn , but they kept coming , shouting . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We think they 'll like them . |
| 8 | It then becomes easy in service provision to slip almost unwittingly from providing what we think the clientele requires to providing what we think they ought to have . |
| 9 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 10 | " If long putters enable more people to play without jeopardising the integrity of the game , we think they ought to continue to be used , " Bloch said . |
| 11 | The county council has taken those decisions and we think they ought to be debated vigorously and following that discussion , the panel will come to its conclusion . |
| 12 | Millions of us choose the specially prepared baby and toddler drinks because we think they must be healthier than ordinary lemonade or squash . |
| 13 | We have done so because we think they can do it better than anyone else . |
| 14 | We think they will be ready next year , and we are looking forward to tasting the fruit . ’ |
| 15 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 16 | We think they should be able to get jobs and hope they will stay for a few years at least . |
| 17 | This is partly because we think they should be more widely recognized but also because they can also be wonderfully informative and entertaining . |
| 18 | They want us to think they will advance through Charleroi , while all the time they will come towards us here ! |