Example sentences of "think it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her their kinship was obvious , but she had thought it was because she knew — yet Leif also appeared to have detected it . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's slightly earlier than I thought it was but we 're OK still . ’ |
| 3 | It is n't a swan I thought it was but I I do n't , hello , I do n't think it is . |
| 4 | I thought it was but |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I thought it was because they could not understand the language . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hankey , the Secretary of the Cabinet , thought it was because he gave Baldwin ‘ a certain sense of gaucherie and inferiority ’ . |
| 10 | I thought it was because of the long journey , and the children . |
| 11 | I thought it was because of his gout . ’ |
| 12 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 13 | She stopped abruptly , and Belinda thought it was because she had been about to say something outspoken that would betray this afternoon 's confidences — ‘ A wife like Belinda , ’ or ‘ Someone to share your house and your life , ’ but when Faye did speak again her tone was not the breezy cover-up that Belinda had expected . |
| 14 | He thought it was because of the heat . |
| 15 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Ven , and I thought it was because you did n't trust me enough not to ask Lubor personal questions about you for my interview . ’ |
| 17 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 18 | ‘ I rather thought it was for yours . |
| 19 | Mr thought it was cos it was choir practice . |
| 20 | ‘ Anna would have told her who she thought it was if she knew . |
| 21 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 22 | British gardeners thought it was and the RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers has now become a best seller . |
| 23 | Gray obviously thought it was and only added Mark Sunley and Lee Tucker , both unknowns . |
| 24 | I , I , I was gon na tell you what I thought it was and I 've forgotten have n't I ? |
| 25 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 26 | I do n't really , I do n't really think it 's that that 's pinning people down and I think this theatre will be slightly different . |
| 27 | In terms of the concentration of energy , it will occupy the smallest volume , and I do n't think it 's and accident that we use petrol . |
| 28 | Do you think it 's cos she has n't ? |
| 29 | Do you think it 's because it does n't look domestic enough maybe it looks a bit industrial or |
| 30 | Reporter asks : Do you think it 's because of your background ? |