Example sentences of "[pron] think [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought my bloody chair oh |
| 2 | ‘ Six weeks ago I thought my whole career might be up , but I love it over here , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Yes , I thought your direct information approach was going to stop this thing dead in its tracks there . |
| 4 | Only Paul Smith and Colin Harvey ( I thought his full-time job as Howard Kendall 's assistant at Everton would have kept him too busy to put pencil and crayon to paper ! ) got close to producing something workable , but even Smithy 's attempt in green would have fallen foul to Mr Clough 's watchful eye . |
| 5 | Houston coach Jack Pardee said : ‘ I thought our kicking game was good until the last kick . ’ |
| 6 | I thought our social services people did that if they run that why should they direct people away from their own livelihoods . |
| 7 | ‘ Somewhere , ’ Lee said , ‘ I do n't know where — in Africa , I think — there dwell two tribes , close to one another — I mean I think their assumed boundaries could well be adjacent — who hold diametrically opposed attitudes to the birth of twins . |
| 8 | I think her principal objection to me was that I exercised some influence over him , which was at odds with her own belief that all such influence should be exercised through her . |
| 9 | Oddly enough , I think her main troubles come rather more from not being English and not always being able to place people . ’ |
| 10 | and I think she sa I think her little daughter goes to the Rainbow thing Kate doing her largesse , you know let the heathens in |
| 11 | I think its financial problems stem from its youth and the fact that it has ploughed whatever money it has back into the charity . |
| 12 | Given that Callinicos ' book is difficult , and given the probability that despite the seriousness of its argument it is unlikely to be widely debated , I will firstly offer an interpretation of what I think its main themes are , and what they are not . |
| 13 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 14 | I think his hypocritical extremism is in fact . |
| 15 | I think his natural instinct might be to hit Charles rather hard . |
| 16 | I think his genial ghost is already chuckling , that ‘ we 'll see who are really the suckers ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ He is a nice , intelligent guy but I think his public image reflects only what he wants known about himself . |
| 18 | are greatest and where the greatest problem there are or , or , er exist under normal circumstances to which the trunk roads , the A roads , the primary roads , the principle roads , these roads are where the traffic is greatest and this therefore constitutes in my mind at least the most important roads , I think your correct term , we will er consider the phraseology used in perhaps more accurately to described the , the , the title road which we are talking about here , but I certainly take the point you make . |
| 19 | I think my transsexual obsession must have triggered puberty when I could not reconcile the fact of my being a girl with my intense crushes on other girls . |
| 20 | Er I think my other question falls on the . |
| 21 | Er I I think my honourable friend , if I followed him er is confusing two things , er because erm er what we , he was beginning by talking about er are what we will come to in the regulations er which is the right of citizens of other er member countries to vote in the country of which they 're not a citizen to vote . |
| 22 | And er after that I think my right arm 's got badly burnt . |
| 23 | I would say however , that it 's not been tested whilst , and whilst there is n't a a clear expression of local preference in terms of the population , I think my elected members who represent that particular area would say that they are expressing local views when they have spoken against the new settlement . |
| 24 | ‘ In fact , I think my whole career at the end of the 60s was probably a guilt trip of some sort . |
| 25 | A a subject to er th the I think my main objection to it would be that the lack of reference to cross-sections , which on you without knowledge of the ground could or could not be viable . |
| 26 | " I 'm still comparatively young for a composer , " he has said , " and I think my main body of work will probably come over the next 10 to 15 years . " |
| 27 | But I think my favourite quality was again the pearly translucence of the fibres , while mixing and laying on glazes . |
| 28 | It , the bill was hundred and thirty eight quid last month and it 'll be more than that this month and I think my yearly allowance is about three hundred , you know , so I 'm rapidly running out . |
| 29 | I think our crucial criticism of the whole press release was that the , it was that the good news , if you like , that the council were doing something pro-active about food poisoning came secondary , was a secondary issue in the press release , the main , the main thing was the bad news , and it could have been turned round . |
| 30 | I think our new government may make a tremendous mistake here by not realising this and failing to send any writers to prison . |