Example sentences of "think [pron] can [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , I do n't think I can do the big mower . |
| 2 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 3 | I do n't think you can do a third one year and then try and raise some more money over the next few years and do another third . |
| 4 | He , that he 's now a Director of this Ipswich Buses and I do n't think you can get a better man to do it because he is heart and soul in transport , he , the things that he brought in , the different innovations that he brought in were good , I mean he brought in , he brought in all this erm operated vaults and all that sort of thing and all this electronic gear that they are working now . |
| 5 | He 's picked you out of the pack and thinks you can win the Open . ’ |
| 6 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |
| 7 | ‘ Christ , ’ says Pamela , good-naturedly , ‘ do you think we can have a few more poofs in here ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm prepared to listen to anyone and still think I can do a good job in the Premier League . |
| 9 | By easiest we mean the one on which you think you can achieve the highest marks in the allotted time for the question . |
| 10 | There have been dozens , perhaps hundreds of novels , however , written about the great mysteries of crime from the Constance Kent case of the 1860s to the Wallace trial ( The Was-there-a-Mr-Qualtrough case ) of 1931 to the mystery of who killed the Princes in the Tower , a subject to choose only if you think you can beat the redoubtable Josephine Tey at her own game in her classic The Daughter of Time . |
| 11 | ‘ And you think you can beat the British by ambushes and blowing up police barracks ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think you can create an old but light feeling in a Georgian house with modern furniture if it 's designed the right way . |
| 13 | Most pay a rate of interest that will vary from time to time , but there is nothing to stop you moving your Tessa from one bank or building society to another if you think you can get a better return from another source . |
| 14 | You think you can get a good scuttle going with two legs ? |
| 15 | You can get international directory enquiries on hash 6 as well , that 's in the book , and I think you can get the international operator . |
| 16 | No I think you can have a white one . |
| 17 | Well done , that was absolutely first rate , I mean erm , it was a difficult er , task you had , especially as the book was n't in the library , of which I am deeply apologetic , because I thought it was , and er , I thought you er , you coped with a very difficult assignment extremely well , and I think you can have an extra and I 'm sure everyone else thinks so too . |
| 18 | So it 's only a matter of two months and than I think we can make a long-term decision , not the short-term . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm happy at Strasbourg ; they have been very good to me and next season I think we can make a big play for the French championship , ’ said Hughes . |
| 20 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 21 | Well I think we can identify a good reason for this . |
| 22 | And if we buy direct we think we can get a better deal . ’ |
| 23 | I think we can help the Soviet populations to get through the coming winter , with , with , food aid , cos I think there gon na have a very bumpy winter er , in the economic sense , and then I think we should also , er , be involved in sorting out the military future of Europe , because it 's Europe as a whole that we 're talking about now . |
| 24 | So if anyone 's interested in going on that , get in touch with me or Dave , we 'll erm , say we do n't need to many but I think we can take a few and we will take our petition with us on that one , the animal petition . |
| 25 | If that was a true reflection of their form then I think we can have a good shot at a place in Europe . |
| 26 | Now they think they can cure the defective gene in the lungs . |
| 27 | The young regulars come to a station and they think they can tell a reserve man what to do . |
| 28 | I think they can score the two goals they need , but whether their often naive defence can prevent Spartak Moscow from spoiling the party remains to be seen . |
| 29 | A Somali taxi-driver denounces those in his country who still think they can make a radical revolution , before turning to a discussion of the narcotic , khat , legally available in Britain but banned for some time in the US . |
| 30 | " If they think they can discover the lost vein , or by driving a new level find a fresh one , they will do one or the other for their own advantage " . |