Example sentences of "[adv] think [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 2 | ‘ Though Canon Wheeler apparently thought he had something on Paul . |
| 3 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 4 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 5 | I was naïve enough to think it had a remote chance . |
| 6 | Hmm I personally think he 's seen the light about it . |
| 7 | Many of the latecomers , especially as the afternoon wore on , were furious to find the doors locked , not having heard of the noon closure and so thinking they had all day . |
| 8 | Mouse Microsoft , oh it already thinks you 've got a mouse . |
| 9 | Poor Pat already thinks he 's been raised from the dead and is destined for some great thing , to help Marcus to save the world ! ’ |
| 10 | He could not think what had got into Helen , normally as rational as himself about all this , or so he had thought . |
| 11 | Really , she could not think what had come over Harold . |
| 12 | He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand . |
| 13 | I simply can not think what has happened to this class you 've ta when you 've . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not think what 's come over Brian , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 16 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 17 | I do not think we have enough police living locally . |
| 18 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 19 | I do not think they have seen me . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 22 | ‘ You should not think you have the Merkuts to thank for your freedom , ’ Jehan said conversationally . |
| 23 | ’ I do not think you have … much to offer . ’ |
| 24 | I do not think it had occurred to anybody in court at this time that Waddell 's conviction would be anything but a foregone conclusion . |
| 25 | The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties . |
| 26 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
| 27 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 28 | But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words . |
| 29 | I do not think I have the strength . |
| 30 | I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) . |