Example sentences of "think that [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had thought that living in Normandy would make him ambivalent towards his old enemy , but he had spent too many years fighting the Crapauds suddenly to relinquish the need to see them beaten . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have thought that looking for a gas leak with a lighted match would be the last thing he would do . ’ |
| 3 | Tucholsky once remarked that there were people who thought that staying in an elegant hotel made them elegant themselves . |
| 4 | Another five thought that talking about it was a waste of time . |
| 5 | FROGS : Some people think that knowing about frogs is important . |
| 6 | Yeah page seven er er I think that speaking from memory we did want that made clear that that er was the recognition of the achievements of the groundsman handyman , particularly in relation to the high standards of upkeep in the park . |
| 7 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |
| 8 | I think that participating in an Earthwatch project is one of the best ways to gain some knowledge about the environment and its real problems and therefore is a ‘ must ’ if you want to understand the way the environment reacts to human activities . |
| 9 | Moreover , I always think that working with you will lessen my spell in Purgatory when I die . ’ |
| 10 | Many people think that working in showbusiness is an easy glamourous job . |
| 11 | Some people think that persevering for 13 years with the policy of playing 11 right wingers could be a mistake . |
| 12 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 13 | He must not be allowed to think that staying in bed would solve the physical problems of his hemiplegia , as the opposite would certainly happen : he would become lazy , weak , and his spasticity would become more entrenched and pronounced . |
| 14 | Then you would n't have people thinking that going to a Phish concert means you have to put up with the smell of somebody who did n't do very well at school . |
| 15 | Cynical readers might be forgiven for thinking that concentrating on the minutiae of standards is a convenient way of avoiding the subject of how the industry is faring in a depressed market — but they would be wrong . |