Example sentences of "think the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd think the last occupant went bankrupt and left years ago . |
| 2 | Dodging through wry humour works , too : ‘ I do n't think the next door office have quite your entire thesis on this subject . ’ |
| 3 | That was about the , I would think the fourth shop from er , sommat like that . |
| 4 | If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks . |
| 5 | Few , including me , would have thought the third rate guitar outfit of old capable of such divine inspiration but ‘ Screamadelica ’ sounds suspiciously like the baggy generation 's answer to ‘ Sgt. Pepper ’ . |
| 6 | He thought the first would be the most popular : all power to the STB ( the secret police ) . |
| 7 | In 1967 , Sir William Penney , then chairman of UKAEA , thought the first commercial reactor would be in operation in 1979 . |
| 8 | I thought the first half was funnier than the second half . |
| 9 | I thought the second half of it was hilarious I 've read it before . |
| 10 | We wanted to see the place where we thought the 20th century had begun . |
| 11 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 12 | Hindenburg certainly thought the last , for he later wrote : ‘ … they were no longer seeking victory , but destruction . ’ |
| 13 | I thought the last vicar was a bit dopey , but this one 's a sight worse . |
| 14 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but I thought the last two places were to be filled by working scientists . ’ |
| 15 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 16 | I thought the last war would dae fir us all , but it didnae . ’ |
| 17 | I thought the last thing you wanted was to have to spend more time than necessary in my company … seeing as you dislike me so much ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The experience gained meant that some continuity persisted , even thought the next tour in 1937 was rather late in coming , ’ Weir said . |
| 19 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 20 | Those questioned believed that the main issue which Darlington voters thought the next Government should tackle was the health service , followed by education and jobs . |
| 21 | I think the 15th is the hardest driving hole of the lot into the win , but Sandy hit a fantastic drive , outdriving Christy by 50 or 60 yards . |
| 22 | I suppose in the First World War , I do n't remember an awful lot about it , we wer always seemed to have enough to eat but er I , I think the Second World War whatever there was it was fairly distributed . |
| 23 | I think the second line of the new song is ' Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Fergie 's in a sweat' , but what our Deano does in the first line to put old Taggart-face in that state is anybody 's guess . |
| 24 | Right erm a lot of good things there erm empathy is I think the second thing I wrote down on , on the strength , brilliant very see that obviously open up erm there was interest in what I was doing , you , you were confident . |
| 25 | And secondly , I think the second one is exactly the same as it stands Madam Chairman . |
| 26 | We are sure that that reading is incorrect because we think the second category was meant to relate only to the skill and knowledge of the employee acquired during employment and that the Court of Appeal 's approach is consistent with authority and is correct . |
| 27 | This meeting was , I think the second meeting of Management and staff side on the County Council . |
| 28 | I think the second element is that there must be some sense of a concentrational identity erm so that the the sporadic development that one does tend to see in the countryside , I do n't believe constitutes a settlement . |
| 29 | I think the second sort of problem , that you referred to , you have these quite sharp contrasts between the sort of Gatwick erm Crawley area spreading out , where you 've got a young population erm and the coast , where you 've got an ageing population — how does the county allocate its resources and how does it above all , having built schools in Gatwick in Crawley , then convert them to teenage centres and so on . |
| 30 | Then with a sardonic smile he replied : ‘ I think the first sign , the very first symptom of Waldsterben , was an attack of blindness in foresters . ’ |