Example sentences of "[pron] do [not/n't] think " in BNC.
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1 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
2 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
3 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
4 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
5 | ‘ I do not think identity cards would have changed things — I suspect they would not have deterred people from travelling without tickets . ’ |
6 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
7 | ‘ I think we should join well before next summer , but I do not think … that the time to join is this week , ’ Sir Leon said . |
8 | He said : ‘ I think we should join well before next summer , but I do not think … that the time to join is this week . ’ |
9 | we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable . |
10 | As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ . |
11 | I do not think mat is the best way of looking at it . |
12 | ‘ I do not think any publisher has given any journalist that chance before in the United Kingdom . ’ |
13 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
14 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
15 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
16 | But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words . |
17 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
18 | I could be , but I do not think I am . |
19 | And I do not think that Helen is unusual or unfathomable in translating this into a hatred of her own body , a fear of its femininity , unpredictability and curviness , and a longing to keep it all ‘ under control ’ . |
20 | I do not think we could justify turning our backs . ’ |
21 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
22 | I have upon my shoulders so many cares as a landlady that I feel bowed down whereas , and I do not think my memory faults me , I was freer as a maid . |
23 | As to the poetry , sir , I do not think there is much done in that direction though paper aplenty is screwed up and thrown on the floor . |
24 | ‘ Wilson , I do not think you need enumerate Mr Landor 's faults and I repeat , we know he is difficult , but in a man of his years , with his temperament , and cast out by his wife — ’ |
25 | Well , I am shocked that such things can be published , I do not think it is right . |
26 | I do not think this difficulty is insuperable , particularly if one accepts that a single gene mutation could have a large effect in fitting an organism to a new environment . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | The issue is philosophical , but it is so central to the analysis of behaviour that I do not think it can be avoided . |
29 | ‘ I do not think that will necessarily prolong the deliberations and the results will be available — the further recommendations and the analysis — within a year , though I would not nominate a month , ’ he said on BBC Radio 's World At One . |
30 | Mrs Margaret Charles , living 200 yards from the crash , said : ‘ I am furious because I do not think pilots should just bale out and let the plane go on and crash into a village . |