Example sentences of "think for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll think for sure I arranged this ! ’ |
| 2 | And do you think for one minute they care a damn about you ? |
| 3 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 4 | You do n't think for one minute I 'm going to eat the filth I give to you ? |
| 5 | Being in with the gang did n't stop you getting hit but it meant that the Corporals might think for one second before lifting their fists Along with Mike the Rhodesian , Marius , Robert from Oberammergau and Chris , there was myself and a Frenchman called Tignet . |
| 6 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you really think , ’ Alexandra had said earnestly , a pile of linen sheets in her arms , ‘ do you truthfully think for one moment that Aunt Emily would wish this room to be kept like — like a museum ? |
| 9 | Ca n't think for one minutes if for instance was interested in a deal with that he , that er that he would n't , only just to have flick his fingers and would crap themselves |
| 10 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 11 | I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom . |
| 12 | I mean you would n't you would n't think for one minute that Aunty Mary came from . |
| 13 | Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable . |
| 14 | What does she think for that matter ? |
| 15 | I would think for some of the younger ones who have n't seen or read a lot in the papers of where , what 's going on |
| 16 | There 'll be a great big clamour I sho I should think for those seats ! |
| 17 | The claim that " The eye either functions as a whole , or not at all " turns out to be , not merely false but self-evidently false to anybody who thinks for 2 seconds about his own familiar experience . |
| 18 | Nutty looked at Nails and thought for one awful moment he was going to burst into tears . |
| 19 | Although a common form of procedure for research is being recommended here it should not be thought for one moment that a hard and fast programme is being suggested to which every research enquiry should conform . |
| 20 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
| 21 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 22 | Actually , scientists thought for many years that whales had no sense of hearing because they had no external ear lobes like ourselves , a clear example of anthropomorphic projection . |
| 23 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 24 | One girl , I swear , thought for some reason that Pericles was about a car-manufacturer . |
| 25 | to forty or lower , I would have thought for this sort of plan , the majority . |
| 26 | ‘ Dying 's a hard enough thought for old men , and terrible past bearing , maybe , for a boy . |
| 27 | ‘ If we thought for one moment that the health of the public was at risk we 'd stop selling eggs . ’ |
| 28 | I thought for one moment he was about to perform a Highland Fling . |
| 29 | I NEVER thought for one moment that my life would become bound up with rivers . |
| 30 | Meredith watched the long , well-manicured fingers gripping the glass until his joints showed white and she thought for one crazy moment that it was going to break into shards . |