Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] think [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the season when gooseberries are over , delicious fools can be made with uncooked strawberries ; a mixture of raspberries and redcurrants , also uncooked ; and blackberries , cooked as for gooseberries ; but in this case I think that cream spoils the rich colour of the fruit and should be offered separately . |
| 2 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 3 | He writes songs that bare their roots with an unsubtle pride , and in choosing to cover both a Ron Wood song and a very Clash-version influenced ‘ Pressure Drop ’ , he has outlined his mission very clearly ; namely , to be the sort of rock musician who thinks that Keith Richards is a force for change in the world and that Los Angeles poodle metal is bollocks . |
| 4 | For a second he thought that Howarth was about to demur . |
| 5 | For one agonised moment she thought that Dr Neil was going to insist , to touch her again , and she could not bear that — no , no , not that ! |
| 6 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 7 | For a moment he thought that Terry was going to say something important , because his mouth started to form a word , but nothing came out . |
| 8 | For a moment he thought that Alexei was going to argue , but then he ducked his head quickly in the Khan 's direction and stared back at Rostov , cheeks flushed , expression angry . |
| 9 | Following last night I think that MUFC are going to be VERY worried about trying to reassert themselves … more importantly , I think that the rest of the Premier league will be saying , ‘ well look at that , MUFC wre made to look a bit silly by a group of no-hopers … |
| 10 | During my researches for this series I did not meet a single person who thought that teaching excellence receives adequate recognition in the medical world . |
| 11 | EVEN IN an increasingly selfish world I thought that cricket-lovers still retained some reputation for being a bit more fair-minded and generous than most , Vince Hughes 's letter ( WCM May ) makes me wonder . |
| 12 | It 's in this way I think that Proust clears the ground in order to claim that the artist , be he writer , painter , musician , can capture reality by means not open to and indeed mostly at variance with the discursive intellect . |
| 13 | So that 's one way you think that people learnt , how how else do you think people benefit from learning ? |
| 14 | For the longest time everyone thought that people in bands were puppets and idiots . |
| 15 | When I went to the House I thought that Churchill had sat there , and Lloyd George and my hero Aneurin Bevan had sat there , and I felt quite humble . |
| 16 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 17 | For quite some time I thought that bunsen was something that the burners burnt . |
| 18 | steel stock holder there , there is in fact er , a , a wood saw , there 's also a shed manufacturer and also a clear waste of Thetford also uses that , there are large houses , erm in there and all that traffic has to trundle along through residential areas , again onto er onto public routes , er indeed also in fact Pengate Road is very unattractive looking er settlement , if I can use that expression , so for Weeting my proposals would in fact disguise that by embankment and by tree planting , in fact I think that Weeting would gain considerably and it 's these sort of things which we will press upon your vote to draw their attention not just the |