Example sentences of "[verb] think they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spartans subsequently felt guilt at having started the war : there is a revealing sentence in Thucydides ( vii.18 ) which says that they came to think they had lost the war of 431–421 because ‘ they themselves had sinned ’ when the Thebans attacked Plataia when the ‘ libations ’ were still in force . |
| 2 | Secondly , though it is true that most farmers we interviewed reserved special contempt for the MAFF scientists from Whitehall because they understood little about marginal hill farming , and worse did not appear to think they needed to know , local MAFF officials ( not scientists ) in the Carlisle Divisional Office were a completely different case . |
| 3 | so at their half term , February half term I would like to think they 've got those four things on , we 've got |
| 4 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 5 | Whether any of them was tripped up by his own snare or not I do n't know , but I 'd like to think they did go sprawling head first . |
| 6 | Conversely , why is it that finance managers seem to think they have a monopoly on numeracy ? |
| 7 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 8 | And the administration is worried about the possible break-up of Yugoslavia , a state some Americans like to think they invented . |
| 9 | I like to think they found it fun flying , too . |
| 10 | HEART op patients often wake thinking they 've just had a baby — even if they 're men , according to American doctors . |
| 11 | The Danuese might have thought they 'd lost their leaders , that there was no one else , and that 's the moment a frizzy-haired messiah will choose to come upon the scene . |
| 12 | Hereford must have thought they 'd cracked it as well when they went and took the lead against Torquay United … |
| 13 | I would have thought they 'd offered . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have thought they had enough country in Sweden , ’ Bragg said crossly , ‘ without his bothering about ours . ’ |
| 15 | During that 45 minutes , when Arsenal fans must have thought they had been transported from Highbury to Camelot , even Anders Limpar on the bench was forgotten by them . |
| 16 | The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance . |
| 17 | They may have thought they had been abused therefore they could do it . |
| 18 | So backers latching on to John Dunlop 's Jazeel on his debut at Doncaster last month must have thought they had discovered a goldmine . |
| 19 | So I mean I would have thought they 've got ta comply with the same |
| 20 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 21 | but I said to Don , Well I would have thought they have had to have been displayed er to support the fact that they do have incident s you know trained incident stewards on site . |
| 22 | the lawyer , the Admiralty lawyer seems to think they 've got a good case |
| 23 | Maybe the sentence was a bit short but I 've served my time on remand , I 've been in prison six times and have served about thirteen weeks altogether , but I do think they made a mistake I do n't know why . |
| 24 | Maybe the sentence was a bit short but I 've served my time on remand , I 've been in prison six times and have served about thirteen weeks altogether , but I do think they made a mistake I do n't know why . |
| 25 | I do n't think , ‘ I want this to be a religious painting ’ , but I do think they have a religious subtext . |
| 26 | I , I do think they have rather gone over the top . |
| 27 | He says ; I do think they do forget the basic points and they go away with a lkot more knowledge and hopefully will save lives . |
| 28 | As I said to her we 've got two shelves of hardbacks in the alcove because I do think they furnish a room as the man said , but I would n't be on for lending them out because you do n't know the condition they 'd come back in . |
| 29 | He told us that the paintings on either wall faced each other , and he liked to think they carried on a consultation to themselves . |
| 30 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |