Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] think [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cold light of the morning after , she did not think she even fancied him , could hardly bring what he looked like into focus , she had gone briefly crazy that was all , gone native . |
| 2 | He had seen the Eiffel Tower so many times in photographs or on television he did not think it really existed . |
| 3 | But she did not think he ever would be . |
| 4 | I hope you do not think me unduly vain with regard to this last matter ; it is just that one never knows when one might be obliged to give out that one is from Darlington Hall , and it is important that one be attired at such times in a manner worthy of one 's position . |
| 5 | Of course we hope that Dounreay will diversify and look for work outside nuclear tasks , especially in the area of alternative and renewable energies ; but we all know that the fast reactor programme will cease in 1994 and I do not think it right that , as a matter of policy , the hon. Lady should seek to shut off the work going on there to reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 6 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 7 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 8 | I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word . |
| 9 | ‘ I do not think you even realise the danger you walk towards so willingly . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ David , I hope your mother did n't think me dreadfully insensitive- ’ |
| 11 | She had no idea that knowing Marion Aluinn , Hector did n't think her very pretty . |
| 12 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 13 | ‘ And I did n't think he ever would play in my team . ’ |
| 14 | He says I did n't think he really wanted to shoot me . |
| 15 | I did n't think you even liked me very much at the moment , let alone … let alone cared sufficiently to want to marry me … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't think you ever thought much of revolution , ’ I tell him , sipping my whisky . |
| 17 | Part of me did n't think I ever would , part of me disapproved , part of me was a little scared , to tell the truth . |
| 18 | Shame about the stupid did n't think it just happens . |
| 19 | Love ? she mused , and she did n't think she quite liked the idea of Leo watching her while she slept . |
| 20 | She began to climb the staircase , but I stopped her , saying : ‘ Miss Kenton , please do n't think me unduly improper in not ascending to see my father in his deceased condition just at this moment . |
| 21 | I do n't think we normally do that . |
| 22 | Something I do n't think we particularly do . |
| 23 | No we still have n't had a women 's night and I do n't think we probably ever will have . |
| 24 | I do n't think we even knew what the O stood for ; perhaps he lied about it . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think we ever had one . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think we ever thought , though , that the bank would not support us . |
| 27 | I do n't think we ever thought the bank would not support us . |
| 28 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 29 | Yes definitely I mean I do n't think we ever dreamt in our wildest dreams I think really it was maybe chance thing f fate or whatever you know . |
| 30 | Oh I was in repudiation of my contract well I du n no what what it means to repude some things , you know I jumped to get a dictionary and found out , but I really do n't know what my contract was because I do n't think we ever had any . |