Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 2 | Can I say two minutes for what I think might happen and where we 've derived some of the authority from . |
| 3 | Andrew Jackson got a bit nearer what I thought we were asking for with his ‘ Crazy For You ’ from Madonna in support of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 4 | Pride is a state in which people seek attention and recognition for what they think they are and what they think they have done . |
| 5 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 6 | It was not long after the unearthing of the Phillips curve that economists and , later , policy makers came to grasp the full force of what they thought to be its implications for the conduct of demand management by the monetary and fiscal authorities . |
| 7 | Check and recheck : summarise and get confirmation of what you think you heard . |
| 8 | Jobless Peter Urben , 43 , clambered on to the roof of what he thought was the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop next door . |
| 9 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 10 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 11 | Since it is hard to change departments once you are in , choose the department in which you think you will be able to settle down . |
| 12 | He put the chemical in what he thought was the storage tank but was n't . |
| 13 | If you write it yourself it may turn out to be invalid , or there may be legal ambiguities in what you thought were clear requests . |
| 14 | Because after you listen to the evidence will be that these are professional officers doing a very difficult job and members of the public , members of the jury create very dated job they have the one objective I 've told you about to protect members of the public from further harm from what they thought was an armed criminal on the run . |
| 15 | Erm it can set its parameters to what it thinks is suitable then . |
| 16 | Was his calculation based on any assessment of what he thinks the cost of that renationalisation might be ? |
| 17 | is part of which I think is just ridiculous and will be a nice well meaning democratic tolerant guy in but considering the history of those two countries I rather doubt it erm and I , I think the best way of securing er the safety of that population is actually to change the border before the borders are are fixed and settled and before these countries actually become independent . |
| 18 | ‘ And now , I beg you , I beseech you , to reassure me that you are not also one of those unspeakables of which I think we both know the name only too well . ’ |
| 19 | She could not exactly deny the existence of what she thought of as the stranger within . |
| 20 | Well you might want to go and ask him er about it because he 'll be presumably your , your , your personal tutor as well so erm you may be able to get some more er you know , some , some , something off him you know kind of what he thought of your essay or something like that |
| 21 | Other subtle philosophical discussions concerned the contrast between the objective reality of the instant and the ideal nature of duration , because the latter is a mental construct , whereas the former is experienced ( the opposite of what we think in the West today ) . |
| 22 | He will probably get you to agree the opposite of what you thought you said , as he did with " considerable " . |
| 23 | Also in 1985 , one former PGCE tutor ( Nott , 1985 ) gave a detailed description of what he thought should be included in a PGCE course for foreign languages . |
| 24 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 25 | Well , the two of them had made no bones about what they thought of her . |
| 26 | I head south after what I think 's called a hearty breakfast and an even heartier cough . |
| 27 | Start by making a list of the areas in which you think you might be able to generate coverage over a three-month period . |
| 28 | His espousal of Blast closed to him just those doors that were on the point of opening ; and twenty years later , when he desperately wanted such access to the power-wielding centres of society , he was condemned to the world of fantasy in which he thought he could influence United States policy by way of such unlikely intermediaries as Senators Borah and Bankhead , and Italian policy by way of Ubaldo degli Uberti . |
| 29 | In the same case , at 427 , Denning LJ ( as he then was ) gave more examples in the following passage and summarised the circumstances in which he thought the court would interfere : |
| 30 | Indeed , the embassy will certainly be represented at the forthcoming trials to which I think the hon. Gentleman is referring . |