Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] think for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me . |
| 2 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 3 | And I thought for fuck 's sake , and he is like that , his mum as well is like that . |
| 4 | She asks me what I want , and I think for a bit . |
| 5 | There 's a telephone on the wall just by my table and I think for a bit about who I 'd like to phone . |
| 6 | But it 's nevertheless real — for me , and I think for you . |
| 7 | I want people to be able to listen to the records over and over again and I think for that to happen you have to create a depth of information that 's rock solid . |
| 8 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |
| 9 | And I think for many of you in this room that 'll be the nearest Consumer Advice Centre to where you live . |
| 10 | And I think for what we 're paying we should be having a wee bit er , the dir , the building should be a looking a wee bit more respectable and presentable to what it is ! |
| 11 | And I think for youngsters it 's much better to have a repayment and then maybe change it later on to , to a savings type mortgage . |
| 12 | And I think for you that may be the best way of doing things . |
| 13 | and I think for four hundred and eighty quid I could get a very nice real computer . |
| 14 | That has been our major worry and I think for us now to go away and just allow it to go ahead , twenty years on , without any improvements , without the link road and without improvements to Hill I think is an abdication of our duties and I really do think that . |
| 15 | And I think for too long , we 've listened to the libertarians who want to think of the rights of the criminal all the time , and er , and do n't worry too much about the victim . |
| 16 | And I think for Mr to pretend that the Government has nothing to do with our problems , is unfortunately becoming more and more threadbare as an excuse . |
| 17 | The home manual school panel meeting erm on erm for sometime now and I think for those people who do n't get to see the government . |
| 18 | It was wonderful for me and I think for them also . |
| 19 | And I think for the dyslexic child , for the disturbed child generally , we need to offer an atmosphere which is calm . |
| 20 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 21 | ‘ How you suddenly remember something very vividly , ’ she said , ‘ and you think for a moment you 've really got hold of it . |
| 22 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Be reasonable , ’ Johnny whispered , and she thought for a moment that he was going to hit her . |
| 24 | Meredith watched the long , well-manicured fingers gripping the glass until his joints showed white and she thought for one crazy moment that it was going to break into shards . |
| 25 | His lips hesitated , and she thought for a moment that he was going to draw her away , but he gave a low groan and his mouth moved against hers again . |
| 26 | And she thought for a moment of little Mrs Richards , and the regrets she had lived with for fifty years . |
| 27 | But I thought for a girl that 's |
| 28 | but I think for people to go and have plastic surgery of that length of time for erm any thing else other than medical reasons |
| 29 | But I think for employment officers , this would be really useful in the actual development . |
| 30 | But I think for our purposes we might define ‘ an ordinary person ’ as ‘ anyone who is not a professional philosopher ’ . |