Example sentences of "think that [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , father , do n't you think that one who is just as good and pure , and who understands farm life as well as the farmer , would be much better ? ’ |
| 2 | No-one should ever think that what they were doing was too small . |
| 3 | That 's perfectly true , it is a system of the end of the world and my only consc my only complaint is that I do n't think that what my Right Honourable Friend is suggesting is in fact a destruction of the tripartite system . |
| 4 | ‘ I know you mean well , but , try as I might , I ca n't think that what you are suggesting would be right — not for either of us . |
| 5 | But I do think that what he 's doing is something truly wonderful — and quite different . |
| 6 | But I do n't think that he himself would see it as a failure at all . |
| 7 | In spite of all this , we do not think that anyone who has chosen to work in a job where he is paid weekly should have monthly payment imposed on him against his will . |
| 8 | Unlike Mr I have always found fox hunting distasteful , I have never participated in it , I have never followed it and I do n't think that I I ever want to and er , I have I am not convinced by either economic or the put forward in its favour . |
| 9 | He is the kind of man who thinks that whatever he does , he should be forgiven . |
| 10 | He is the kind of man who thinks that whatever he does , he should be forgiven . |
| 11 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 12 | My informant thinks that what he saw was genuine and was certain that someone was down there , his mate in the other box was equally sure that he too saw the figure . |
| 13 | Myra told me that , until the previous year , she would have thought that nothing whatsoever had occurred in her childhood which could have caused her revulsion to physical contact . |
| 14 | He grew very portly as an old man and although by this time he had become something of a legend to the other members of his club ( " The Hero of Krishnapur " ) , one might have thought that he himself had entirely forgotten about the siege . |
| 15 | She spoke in innocence of the fact that Knockglen had once thought that she herself might be the ideal child for them . |
| 16 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 17 | Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge . |
| 18 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 19 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 20 | ‘ They thought that what we had done was an example of how a test should be made . |
| 21 | I think that at the end of his life he thought that what he knew was lost for ever . |
| 22 | She thought that what he had said was likely to be either partially or totally untrue , but it was not her concern . |
| 23 | I always thought that what he lacked in defensive qualities he made up for in attacking qualities . |
| 24 | If he were not so attractive she thought that she herself might , by now , have shaken him soundly . |
| 25 | Now , he does think that the one and the mind is present to every one of us , erm , but I also take it that erm he er thought that he himself , had been able to ascend to the one er four times in the course of his life and that he also thought that some of his students were of better contemplation than others and erm so he may also have thought as Plato did , that some people are more inclined towards philosophy than others . |
| 26 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 27 | I think that what what she is in danger of doing is cutting across what the District Council 's doing , we , er and in East Hertfordshire we are running at a , a composting scheme in conjunction with the County at and I , I , I understand that looks to be very promising . |
| 28 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 29 | I think that what we 've got is the acceptance by the designers and the planners of the class system that they knew |
| 30 | Cos I think that what we will need to do is refer it to General Purposes Committee for and people to go and have a look at it . |