Example sentences of "[pers pn] think [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 erm I go along with what erm Simon said about Paul , I 'm I thought at one time that they would go for Cox and him , to be perfectly honest , he 's absolutely right on what he said , and I 'm sure they 're relying on the fact that I believe Paul is going to be a home track and they 're going to pick a lot points up at home .
2 Jack Heinz and I thought as one : that if the drawings could be housed in a Portman Square modernised for fire and climate control , and have the financial burden lifted from the shoulders of the RIBA , this would allow for spatial manoeuvre in Portland Place .
3 So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time .
4 I , I thought about six hundred .
5 Last night I thought of one , it was a sort of butter-yellow ( farm-butter-yellow ) held rising to a white luminous sky and the sun just rising .
6 I thought for fifteen pounds , seven pounds and forty nine P
7 I thought for one moment he was about to perform a Highland Fling .
8 I thought for one moment you said twenty-five a year . ’
9 Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was
10 I thought for one hopeful minute you were gon na wind up then .
11 I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again .
12 I thought for ten pence a week that was not bad rubbish .
13 I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard …
14 The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might .
15 I thought at one time Didi and I would get along well enough , but , after finding my sweet , simple , clumsy , courageous , honest , fiery … ’ his voice dropped to a husky whisper ‘ … beautiful , passionate Sagittarian , I know no other woman would have satisfied me . ’
16 Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do .
17 Harry and I thought at one stage that if we could find a proper home
18 I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young .
19 That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest .
20 And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be .
21 Her health began to suffer , which was understandable , and I think at one time she deteriorated so badly that the doctors rather washed their hands of her .
22 So this was mentioned in fact , I think at one stage .
23 I think at one point that the cash flow figure of fourteen point three million appeared .
24 He was fourteen plus I think at one time .
25 erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ?
26 I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger .
27 PAMELA : Since I must not say what I think on one hand nor on the other , let me depart your presence .
28 And in twelve years as an experienced shop steward , I can only recall having a full time officer in I think on three occasions .
29 I , I think with four of you , you 're gon na get through two bottles anyway , so it does n't matter which one .
30 and words , I think with three mix , mix well actually , mix it with
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