Example sentences of "[pron] think [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , ’ said Gedanken , ‘ everyone thinks their own life is normal , and it 's the other 's that 's gone wrong — going too fast or too slow . |
| 2 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 3 | I thought their finest moment was when , having lost the semi-final to England in a match controversially shortened by rain , they sportingly accepted what they regarded as a ludicrous interpretation of a ludicrous set of rules and publicly shook hands with the England team before starting on a lap of farewell of the stadium . |
| 4 | Frankly , I thought their three goals were sloppy . ’ |
| 5 | I thought my bloody chair oh |
| 6 | ‘ Six weeks ago I thought my whole career might be up , but I love it over here , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Yes , I thought your direct information approach was going to stop this thing dead in its tracks there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 10 | Houston coach Jack Pardee said : ‘ I thought our kicking game was good until the last kick . ’ |
| 11 | I thought our social services people did that if they run that why should they direct people away from their own livelihoods . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I think their greatest achievement was to realise that despite the fact that she was unable to speak , she was still able to communicate in other ways . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 4 ) ‘ My daughter met any other child at playgroup with a resounding thump if they touched ‘ her toy ’ ( because I think her older brother was still treating her to this type of jealousy at home ) . |
| 16 | Oddly enough , I think her main troubles come rather more from not being English and not always being able to place people . ’ |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I think its financial problems stem from its youth and the fact that it has ploughed whatever money it has back into the charity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I think its some C D E or something like that |
| 21 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | I think his hypocritical extremism is in fact . |
| 24 | I think his natural instinct might be to hit Charles rather hard . |
| 25 | I think his genial ghost is already chuckling , that ‘ we 'll see who are really the suckers ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ He is a nice , intelligent guy but I think his public image reflects only what he wants known about himself . |
| 27 | ‘ I think your first client has arrived . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news . |