Example sentences of "think [pers pn] [be] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 2 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 3 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 4 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 5 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
| 6 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 7 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 8 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 9 | Do you think it 's the main thing ? |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't get me wrong , I think it 's a tragedy that Glen Canyon Dam was built ; but if I was a farmer in Arizona I 'd probably think it was the greatest thing in the world . ’ |
| 11 | He did it so cleverly that you would think it was the real thing — until he burst out laughing . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I think you 're the best thing in the entire show , ’ and she thought , If only you knew . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you 're the meanest thing on this earth , Carrie Willow . |
| 14 | ‘ We all think it 's the best thing for you , to see something of life beyond the dale . ’ |
| 15 | They have a filing system , and the procedure for it which is about two pages is highly efficient , and the engineers think it 's the best thing since sliced bread . |
| 16 | Erm , I think it 's the right thing , is n't it ? |
| 17 | Well I think it 's the macho thing . |
| 18 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |
| 19 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |