Example sentences of "[pers pn] think [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought all nurses had bad skin and beefy thighs . ’ |
| 2 | I thought all Nonconformists did . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought all Archdeacons wanted clergy to live in modern bungalows based on designs derived from the local constabulary ? ’ |
| 4 | One said , ‘ I thought all women thought all men were the lowest form of human life . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I thought forensic methods had become so refined that it would be impossible to touch gelignite without some traces lingering about one 's person . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought this man loved me , ’ she said , ‘ but he has lied to me . |
| 7 | I thought most people knew about genes nowadays . |
| 8 | ‘ Good God , I thought those things went out with the ark . |
| 9 | I must take the opportunity of saying what a marvellous job I thought both Captains did . |
| 10 | I thought both full-backs had a good game , particularly with the lively attackers they were up against . |
| 11 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 12 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 13 | ‘ He was a very unique person and I saw him more deeply than I think other people did . |
| 14 | But I think Sabine Jourdain did most of the work on the paintings and I think you knew it . ’ |
| 15 | I think this bread turned a bit late actually . |
| 16 | There is a partial line on the map which I think this Council agreed before my time but that is not a line which could be implemented because it starts from nowhere and goes to nowhere and we are still I believe in , in , in limbo so far as the exact route which might be proposed either the northern or the southern end . |
| 17 | In one sense ( typically , when it occurs before a countable noun , meaning ‘ an unknown individual ’ ) it has the strong form : ‘ I think some animal broke it ’ It is also used before uncountable nouns ( meaning ‘ an unspecified amount of ’ ) and before other nouns in the plural ( meaning ‘ an unspecified number of ’ ) , in such uses it has the weak form . |
| 18 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |
| 19 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 20 | I have to say I think big Stan took the wrong option then you know . |
| 21 | And the er if you did n't have your rubber soles which er a lot of people did n't really like , I think most people thought they were a bit effeminate , most men did anyway , and they used to have these little metal tips put on , you see , or a metal sort of cross section across the heel , that was to save your your shoes again . |
| 22 | And these , just , you just the handle , and the door is two I think both doors had three , full length mirrors . |
| 23 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 24 | In the end I think three people turned up . |
| 25 | However , I think these guys did n't carry the weight with Goreng they should have done because they were Rebus 's associates . |
| 26 | Do you think that realization had had s had n't surfaced until that ? |
| 27 | Why do you think some people opposed the building of oil refineries near Milford Haven ? |
| 28 | Juveniles dominated the exposed shore and she thought few adults survived more than two years . |
| 29 | You thought British art had been ‘ needlessly neglected and undervalued and that somebody ought to do something about it ’ . |
| 30 | If you think another person did that to him . |