Example sentences of "think that [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although risotto rice always cooks up wet , your guests might think that something has gone wrong . |
| 2 | That is to say , they know what it would be like for God to exist , but as a matter of fact they do n't think that one does . |
| 3 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 4 | ’ I do n't actually think that anybody needs to steal . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you not think that someone suspected ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When I arrived home with her , I do n't think that anyone said anything . |
| 7 | You might think that anyone connected with Polly Peck would be keeping a low profile these days . |
| 8 | I do not think that anyone has ever accused me of being Ebenezer Scrooge . |
| 9 | Kellett-Bowman ) , who wanted to retain the poll tax — I do not think that anyone has told her yet that the Conservatives propose to do away with it . |
| 10 | I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks . |
| 11 | I do not think that anyone attempting to classify the vertebrates would fail to recognize the Anura as a group , or that , presented with an adult vertebrate , one would be in any doubt as to whether or not it was an Anuran . |
| 12 | It was thought that anyone subscribing to a newspaper would have to pay a special tax . |
| 13 | But there ; she was wrong when she thought that everybody prayed , because Mrs Aggie did n't pray , nor did Ben , nor his Annie . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought that one had been settled . |
| 15 | If you made everything into a joke , people thought that nothing mattered to you , that you took nothing seriously . |
| 16 | Simple-minded people sometimes think that everything 's been said about Hollywood . |
| 17 | I think that everyone had to be rescued by a motor boat as we drifted helplessly around , vainly splashing at the water with these pieces of wood . |
| 18 | We all think that someone murdered William to steal the gold chain . |
| 19 | Children often attract our attention when they think that someone has ‘ more ’ than they do . |
| 20 | I think that someone found the rings that belonged to Parsons and Dashwood . |
| 21 | Everybody 's in their own camp , and it , it , it 's only when you come to consider , and I mean my group is nowhere near behind me on this , because we have farmers who , who again think that anything to do with County Farms is sacrosanct . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's folks around the department think that anything connected with that connects with you . ’ |
| 23 | As the future of manufacturing investment depends on confidence in future economic performance , does my right hon. Friend think that anyone contemplating what will happen to his income will feel more confident if he is threatened with slow torture rather than immediate amputation ? |
| 24 | The man seemed to think that everything said to him was excruciatingly tedious and barely worth his attention . |
| 25 | Certain individuals did — I do n't want you to think that nobody took it seriously , but my feeling was that in the school there was no great sort of feeling that there was something important going on during the self-appraisal . |
| 26 | He preferred not to think that everyone knew the artist had painted his best-known work from the window overlooking Dzerjhinsky Square . |
| 27 | It might be thought that this was an essential part of the cuckoo 's deception — that by leaving the same number of eggs in the nest , the cuckoo might fool the host bird into thinking that nothing had happened . |