Example sentences of "thinks [pers pn] should [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Someone thinks I should pay them ten thousand pounds .
2 But Aunt Maureen thinks I should tell him straight away . ’
3 The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part .
4 So he thinks I should do you because he despises me , too , and he thinks I 'm God 's scum .
5 I 'll pu I 'll nip down to see Pat and ask Pat what she thinks I should do .
6 she thinks I should do it , you know
7 She 's feeling what she thinks I should feel and she 's living my life .
8 My teacher thinks I should get an A or a B in it .
9 The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft .
10 ( Now the chaplain thinks I should have sprung at him .
11 They walked in silence for a few moments then Chris said , ‘ Maureen thinks I should hate Beryl .
12 He thinks I should phone the hospital and discuss it while he has his breakfast .
13 " And she thinks you should go home ? "
14 I 'll pick you up at five — that will give you time to arrange the holiday the delightful Myra thinks you should have . ’
15 Why Bob Geldof thinks you should read the New Internationalist
16 Why Professor John Kenneth Galbraith thinks you should read New Internationalist : " It 's a magazine with a purpose we can all applaud and must support "
17 The doctor says it is n't serious , but he thinks she should rest in bed for a few days .
18 He thinks she should go to Pakistan because if she does n't she 'll get her own way .
19 Hospital thinks we should go in .
20 He paused and then added , ‘ In any case , everyone thinks we should go . ’
21 This same recipe provides an instructive example of the way in which Dr de Pomiane thinks we should go to work improving a primitive dish to our own taste while preserving its character intact .
22 ‘ Peter thinks we should go after them , ’ Jim said , polishing off his coffee .
23 When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them .
24 But Moore assumes we can ascribe inherent value to smaller units of reality and indeed this may be a necessary presupposition for the kind of calculations on the basis of which he thinks we should decide what is most worth doing .
25 Who thinks we should decide it now ?
26 ( He also thinks we should try to play less football , which I do n't agree with ) .
27 Patrick Robertson is talking about how he thinks we should deal with those duplicitous European politicians when they attempt to bounce us into their scheme for economic and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December .
28 He now thinks they should have remembered how Mr Korovin built his career : as first secretary of the local young Communists ' league .
29 Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance
30 Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance
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