Example sentences of "think i [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think I 'll grieve over the manner of that monster 's death , Simon ? |
| 2 | Sir , I do n't think I 'll go to the Grand next week , I 'm getting susceptible and it 's a bit bewildering when there are eight and all in one troupe . |
| 3 | I do n't think I 'll go to the wall over eight , chairman . |
| 4 | ‘ Good try , but you surely do n't think I 'll fall for a line like that ? ’ |
| 5 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 6 | No , I do n't think I 'd go for a house that erm I would n't but those big houses of course it would have alarms would n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know why you should think I 'd object to a frisky man , military or otherwise . |
| 8 | I do n't think I can play for the dancing this year . |
| 9 | What do you think I should say to the Principal ? |
| 10 | Do you think I could go to the powder room and take off my girdle ? ’ she said . |
| 11 | I do n't think I could cope with the memory of you sitting in my study weeping . ’ |
| 12 | Well it 's , I mean , you know , it 's I I do n't think I could live with the conscience , if I was selling I would say well look |
| 13 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 14 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 15 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 16 | No , well what I was going to do , er , I thought I might write to the Council and say , seeing that er , it 's important to have that there |
| 17 | The editor had kindly accepted an article I had written about West Indian gospel music , so I thought I would go to the head office and introduce myself . |
| 18 | I thought I would die at the start but , actually , once I got into the swing of it all it was rather fun . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I thought I 'd sit in the garden , ’ said Betty . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I 'd go for a quick swim before breakfast , ’ she told them , deeply grateful that there was no sign of Guido . |
| 21 | After a while I thought I 'd go into the orchard and practise some chip shots so I went to get my nine iron . |
| 22 | When I 'd finished I thought I 'd go to the living room to curl up by the gas fire . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought I 'd start with a dip in the hot tub . |
| 24 | I thought I 'd stay for a while . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Thought I 'd bring round the little brown envelope — for the guttering and that . ’ |
| 26 | I just thought I 'd watch for the , you know I think it 's on every erm it 's on every da , ways you know Hawaii Five O is showing the old things again . |
| 27 | He had n't suggested the film might not come out although she could n't have had time to develop it yet and she was n't working through a ‘ friend ’ sent round to sympathise with him deplore the whole thing and assure him it could be stopped if he 'd only tell that terrible woman one little thing … ’ — And since I 'm not married or anything I thought I 'd stick to the personal angle . |
| 28 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 29 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 30 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |