Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] think they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when Chris Allen was upended in the area , United probably thought they were home and dry . |
| 2 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 3 | As i said , if you have problems and they do n't you do n't think they 're going to do an awful lot , get back to me cos I I 'm sure that 's going to need some sort of intervention . |
| 4 | I 'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral ; I 'd imagined cops slinking through the undergrowth , whispering into radios , gradually closing in . |
| 5 | You can not put that together with Halloween which basically is people going out thinking they 're going out to have fun and they 're having a bit of a laugh and everything else where 's there 's their underlying er connection with the devil . |
| 6 | The great majority of the girls I taught still thought they were born to serve men . |
| 7 | Seafarers who landed there thought they saw a great chain of mountains and heard the roaring of lions from them . |
| 8 | The doctor and the engineer were but the latest to follow the folly and beggary route , the minority which every generation throws up thinking they can beat the system . |
| 9 | ‘ Brugge will arrive here thinking they can get a win at Ibrox and will be strengthened by the return of players like Dstl and Van der Heyden in defence and midfield , ’ said Smith . |
| 10 | Quite a number of farmers from these areas , although still with 10–15 years active service left , did not think they could benefit from training : for them it was ‘ something for the young folk ’ . |
| 11 | Nutty did not think they would win . |
| 12 | ‘ I admit I did not think they would do that . ’ |
| 13 | They did not think they were alone in feeling isolated in the business world , but when they sent out invitations to the inaugural meeting on 14 July , with an explanation of what they were trying to achieve , they were staggered by the response . |
| 14 | All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now . |
| 15 | Bill Mumford says of course they will make it … they would not be going if they did not think they could do it … they have been well prepared … |
| 16 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 17 | I do not think they are ; not in the night itself anyhow . |
| 18 | Having sung the praises of swimfeeders I must point out that I do not think they are the be-all and end-all of barbel fishing , specially for the very big ones . |
| 19 | They have slightly relaxed their demands for absolute obedience to the rules and do not think they are demeaning themselves by giving reasons for their ‘ do 's ’ and ‘ don'ts ’ . |
| 20 | Other publishers do not think they must follow Reed 's initiative to regain lost ground . |
| 21 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 22 | I do not think they are evil . |
| 23 | Saddam is now more reliant than ever on other clans , which do not think they would survive his overthrow . |
| 24 | But I do not think they will believe it necessary to dilute our sense of national identity in order to play a full-hearted role in Europe . |
| 25 | For all those reasons I am satisfied that although the justices plainly were very concerned and believed that this was the right course to take , I do not think they were justified in refusing the local authority 's application for an interim care order . |
| 26 | Second , we will set-down the perspective of the Liberals and SDP — the parties that have been most active in pressing the case for a new constitution precisely because they do not think they can win within the rules of the old one . |
| 27 | James responded by supporting the role of the merchandisers , of whom he said , ‘ I do not think they are changing the LA image — I can only think they are enhancing it by ensuring the best level of stock service to the shops . ’ |
| 28 | I do not think they have seen me . |
| 29 | Even so , I do not think they have mended the battery correctly as it said it was about to close down and stop when the battery meter said the battery was five-eights full … |
| 30 | For I do not think they will talk to me , not without encouragement . |