Example sentences of "think [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He thinks the ministry is an affectation and a waste of time , and on the other hand he thinks priests should be very good , and he does n't think I am because he 's known me for so long , so he 's annoyed with me . |
| 2 | I still ca n't read him ; I 'm not able to tell whether he thinks this is likely or not , whether he thinks this is evidence I 'm not his man or he still thinks I am but I had help . |
| 3 | Monsieur thinks I am but I know Madame Duvalle does n't agree . |
| 4 | I do n't think she was that bothered , I 'd be annoyed , like ! |
| 5 | ‘ I let you think she was because I wanted to make you jealous . |
| 6 | It means they 're going to treat you like a grown-up , but they do n't really think you are and anyhow they 're jealous of you . |
| 7 | You get into this thing where you 're suddenly influenced by Helvetica , or Univers , even though you do n't think you are when you 're redrawing . |
| 8 | She thinks she is and Ann do n't know she said I forgot to ask her . |
| 9 | We have highlighted the importance of recognising that the Constitution is subject to change in response to political conflicts , and so we have pointed to the need to study the Constitution ( and constitutional theory ) historically , politically and critically , with an eye to the tensions between things as they are and things as it is thought they are and should be . |
| 10 | Not with a thing like a outputs of aspirin , I mean everyone in Boots knows what the outputs of aspirin are just strange that they are in fact three times what we 'd thought they were and we 've course there 's Crooks , course there 's this , course there 's that tremendous discernment , tremendous understanding but if you have n't got that tremendous understanding , you 've just joined the company , you think you know something and you do n't because not what they think they are |
| 11 | To her their kinship was obvious , but she had thought it was because she knew — yet Leif also appeared to have detected it . |
| 12 | Fernando was n't the proud man she 'd thought he was and Steve was a creep to have just gone off without letting her know why , with whom and for how long . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I know some people might think we are because we occasionally partner each other , but you should have known better — or perhaps not , since you never had any scruples about being a party to another man 's infidelity six years ago , which leads me to believe that this show of conscience on Cavell 's behalf is just that — show ! |
| 14 | How much of a danger do you think there is that we 'll get yet another sea change at the home office and policies on cautioning and criminal justice generally , will be reversed again ? |
| 15 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 16 | and I do n't think they were because the school |
| 17 | ‘ Steve was never mine to let go but I thought you were and I did n't let you go ! |
| 18 | I thought there is but I mean before . |
| 19 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 20 | I must admit I thought they were and er |
| 21 | ‘ It 's slightly earlier than I thought it was but we 're OK still . ’ |
| 22 | It is n't a swan I thought it was but I I do n't , hello , I do n't think it is . |
| 23 | I thought it was but |
| 24 | I said how wrong I thought it was that she was n't rated in the literary canon , that she was thought of as a ‘ popular ’ novelist , and how some of her work was very much better than that . ’ |
| 25 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |
| 26 | I thought it was because they could not understand the language . |
| 27 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 28 | Hankey , the Secretary of the Cabinet , thought it was because he gave Baldwin ‘ a certain sense of gaucherie and inferiority ’ . |
| 29 | I thought it was because of the long journey , and the children . |
| 30 | I thought it was because of his gout . ’ |