Example sentences of "think [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that the law makes its intelligent decision as to what it thinks should happen which may accord with your wishes . |
| 2 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 3 | What factors do you think could change their reliance on such services ? |
| 4 | And nothing she could think could raise her arm |
| 5 | Such dreams were defeated by the means she 'd first thought would make it possible for her baby to be returned to her . |
| 6 | What do you think would make him notice us ? ’ |
| 7 | Who , who do you think would want one ? |
| 8 | It might be a surprise that she did n't think would displease him . |
| 9 | As a parent , what would you like to see happen in the schools , or what sort of schooling would you best think would suit your child 's needs ? |
| 10 | ( 29–30 September 1777 ) Having decided that he would like to remain in Munich Mozart reported a plan to Leopold which he thought might enable him to do so . |
| 11 | She waited , forcing back tears she thought might irritate him further , watching his implacable shoulders . |
| 12 | Not all Ruth 's time with the other servants was disagreeable , but she quickly found that Millfield 's own staff had little time for the servants of visitors , especially anyone they thought might consider themselves superior . |
| 13 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 14 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 15 | ‘ Now this is what I thought might suit your purposes , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The key that they thought would enable them to achieve this was palladium , a light grey metal similar to platinum in appearance . |
| 17 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 18 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 19 | It was curiously sexual this feeling , exactly the way he had once or twice felt with a girl he was mad to make love to and who he thought would let him but was not quite sure , not absolutely sure . |
| 20 | Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two . |
| 21 | It was n't the alcohol you thought would hit me … ‘ |
| 22 | All she thinks about is being happy — and that means having the things she thinks will make her happy . ’ |
| 23 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 24 | I think ought to cut them out . |
| 25 | Sir , — I congratulate you on the information you have been good enough to send me of your intention to publish a journal for Bishop 's Castle , and I beg leave to offer for your insertion a few remarks on what I think ought to interest your readers — the present position of the question of the extension of the line to your town . |
| 26 | I think let's say you could learn Which ones could n't you learn then do you think ? |
| 27 | Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle , such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable . |
| 28 | Now they have started again , as investors convince themselves that the worst of the recession is over ; as some junk-bond issuers take advantage of falling interest rates and the stockmarket rally to refinance their debt more cheaply or turn it into equity ; and as bond-raiders speculate in distressed companies that they think may restructure themselves or be taken over . |
| 29 | send your record to every DJ and radio producer in the country who you think might give it a play , and follow up your mail-out with a phone call . |
| 30 | Take time to tell him something about your tastes and lifestyle — and the sort of style you think might suit you . |