Example sentences of "think [pron] [vb mod] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what , he thought , as he closed the door behind him , did they think she might have been saying ? |
| 2 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 3 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 4 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
| 5 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 6 | However , he also thought she might have been trying to demonstrate the extent of her distress to her family and possibly to her husband . |
| 7 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 8 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 9 | People thought he might have been joking , but he was n't . |
| 10 | I thought he might have been blaming you like he does , er blame you for moving all his letters when you have n't even touched them ! |
| 11 | ‘ But I do n't think he 'd have been swimming here , sir . ’ |
| 12 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 13 | I think I must have been stumbling round . |
| 14 | And her daughter I think she must have been getting on because around the time she told me that she was eighty , she happened to mention that her daughter was forty . |
| 15 | I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort . |
| 16 | We think he might have been trying to find you . ’ |
| 17 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 18 | I really think he should have been going to try on a left footed shot from there . |
| 19 | ‘ From the position of the body I think he could have been sitting on the edge of the bed . |
| 20 | I can not know how she feels about that experience , but I think it must have been reassuring rather than distressing . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it must have been coming from the cold of the church into the warmth , or , perhaps — ’ and she made a wan attempt at humour — ‘ it might have been the thought of attending the ladies ’ sewing circle which overcame me ! ’ |