Example sentences of "think they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 2 | No doubt they think they have the interests of the artist at heart , he wrote , but for that reason they must be avoided like the plague . |
| 3 | ‘ Most think they need far more than they actually do . |
| 4 | Girls think they are so important . |
| 5 | I think they were that Lord Something 's . ’ |
| 6 | I think they had their fun , she took the veronal to sleep soundly , then when she was far gone he smothered her . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You know why I think they do it ? |
| 8 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 9 | They get the shilling , and a golden promise , and they think they will come back alive one day . ’ |
| 10 | I think they are ashamed . ’ |
| 11 | I bet they think they can waltz home . ’ |
| 12 | Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them . |
| 13 | ‘ Tethnéké. ’ . said the helmsman , ‘ I think they |
| 14 | ‘ We think they are being shot for meat when they land in Afghanistan , ’ she said . |
| 15 | It is nice that we can play them again so soon , but since last year I think they have improved . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If you think they are good , they are reasonable value . |
| 17 | But if you think they are beginning to lose it , the shares are fairly priced . ’ |
| 18 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ She is a qualified international referee and although the players are entitled to their opinions , I think they might say something different in the morning , ’ Foo said . |
| 20 | ‘ If they think they can set up a squad at three months ’ notice , they 're sadly mistaken . |
| 21 | ‘ We take interesting wines and price them at what we think they 're worth . |
| 22 | They think they will stay on top with a 20 to 30-seat lead . |
| 23 | Like , the men who wo n't talk to you think they 're just protecting themselves . |
| 24 | The young regulars come to a station and they think they can tell a reserve man what to do . |
| 25 | But not only is it a way of classifying policemen and women : the term is also used to criticize those outsiders who think they know something about policing , such as lawyers , academics , researchers , and journalists ; it is also a self-appellation of praise . |
| 26 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 27 | Who do They Think They Are ? |
| 28 | I think they are becoming more conscious that the world is not right . |
| 29 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |
| 30 | I told the manager , ‘ You misjudge people , you think they are daft . |