Example sentences of "think that [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 2 | And do n't think that by developing the second half of your brain you will merely be doubling your mental capacity . |
| 3 | So , do you think that by making divorce possible so early on , that a lot of marriages that could be saved , will in fact er founder ? |
| 4 | Then Ruddock told me : ‘ Do you really think that after facing Tyson twice , knocking out former world champions Mike Dokes , Page and Bonecrusher Smith I 'm really gon na be frightened of Lennox Lewis ? ’ |
| 5 | Glen-Gery in the US and the pulp side should turn around this year but David Taylor at UBS Phillips & Drew thinks that by paying interest instead of receiving it the group will make a much-the-same £10m this time , and may cut dividends to 4p . |
| 6 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 7 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 8 | So Sullivan actually thought that by taking the Shah , the US might gain points with the opposition , whose triumph he now regarded as inevitable . |
| 9 | Other employers thought that on costing their executives ' valuable time and all the overheads involved in do-it-yourself recruiting , the differences in total expense were probably marginal . |
| 10 | They could , in fact , be located offshore in shallow water , and lying on the beach watching these large structures with their whirling blades in the murky or hazy distance might be quite satisfying thought that without doing anything they are just providing the nation 's energy , or some of it . |
| 11 | He thought that by involving as many as possible in the formal decision-making , he was ensuring their support ; but he forgot that his pleasure in obedience had been learnt the hard way of monastic conversion , and it was not shared by many — not even , when it came to the push , at Bec — much less in the world . |
| 12 | ‘ Sweet darling , ’ he murmured , and kissed all hurt she had felt away before , shaking his head , he said self-mockingly , ‘ And I thought that by taking myself off to Prague I might get you out of my thoughts . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps he thought that by giving them some space Maria Luisa would get Steve out of her system . |
| 14 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
| 15 | Obviously they thought that by letting this sort of thing out they would have an excuse for putting him away if he ever attempted to call their bluff , " Ha ! " they would be able to say , " Crazy ; read too much SF . |
| 16 | Q. You thought that by doing that you had wiped out every document that existed that would reflect ( the diversion ) , did n't you ? |
| 17 | I thought that by going away to school I would be leaving nothing behind . |
| 18 | The Bohemians thought that in going to the halls they were confronting humanity , albeit on their own terms . |
| 19 | But then again , Pontius Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus and thought that in doing so he had got rid of him . |
| 20 | But I certainly think that with regard to Concept Catering , the merger did not come s , could almost , did n't come soon enough , because we needed to turn Concept Catering , from a school meals organisation into a catering organisation , and give it stronger management and a better lead and a better appreciation of what it means to be customer oriented . |
| 21 | I think that without going into a lengthy treatise , I would have to argue that middle range theory springing out of empirical data is in general the best approach but you will see all the qualifications and nuances involved in such a view . |
| 22 | And you think that by waging war against them you will resolve this present situation . ’ |
| 23 | Imamu is also subjected to physical torture when Perk goes missing and the police think that by torturing him , they will get some information out of him . |
| 24 | I think that by covering their bodies , Muslim women liberate themselves . |
| 25 | Maybe you think that by running a dieting series Lunchtime Scotland Today is re-inforcing stereo-type images of the perfect body . |
| 26 | Diplomats think that by releasing General Tin Oo now , General Ne Win may be trying to counter the growing power of the MIS head , Khin Nyunt . |
| 27 | Personally , I think that in choosing to wed a nice girl like Eunice Gray and have a son he made a very sensible move . |
| 28 | I also think that before sitting in judgement on Dr Hari 's ‘ uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ ’ , a social scientist of Dr Oliver 's calibre might stop to think for a moment about the social context in which those remarks were made . |
| 29 | They seemed to think that by propitiating Celia They might insure themselves against further misfortune . |
| 30 | I would like to think that after doing the stuff and the and that , that they actually get down to something solid . |