Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] think [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cold light of the morning after , she did not think she even fancied him , could hardly bring what he looked like into focus , she had gone briefly crazy that was all , gone native . |
| 2 | He had seen the Eiffel Tower so many times in photographs or on television he did not think it really existed . |
| 3 | I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word . |
| 4 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 5 | He says I did n't think he really wanted to shoot me . |
| 6 | I did n't think you even liked me very much at the moment , let alone … let alone cared sufficiently to want to marry me … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't think you ever thought much of revolution , ’ I tell him , sipping my whisky . |
| 8 | Love ? she mused , and she did n't think she quite liked the idea of Leo watching her while she slept . |
| 9 | I do n't think we even knew what the O stood for ; perhaps he lied about it . |
| 10 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think we ever had one . |
| 12 | Oh I was in repudiation of my contract well I du n no what what it means to repude some things , you know I jumped to get a dictionary and found out , but I really do n't know what my contract was because I do n't think we ever had any . |
| 13 | A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that . |
| 14 | Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think we ever thought , though , that the bank would not support us . |
| 16 | I do n't think we ever thought the bank would not support us . |
| 17 | Yes definitely I mean I do n't think we ever dreamt in our wildest dreams I think really it was maybe chance thing f fate or whatever you know . |
| 18 | I do n't think we actually said who was going to inform the member authorities . |
| 19 | I do n't think we actually used any of them in the end but it has got that cinematic imagery to it . ’ |
| 20 | So are y I do n't think we actually established , are , are you erm are you unemployed ? |
| 21 | We 've had a magazine since we came over but I do n't think they just had enough to put in it and |
| 22 | I do n't think they even thought they would need to do any other sizes and they did n't proportion them so that you could interpolate . |
| 23 | But , of course , if you 're going to be another voice you really need to know what you 're talking about and you need to have vast access to information at least as good as all the departments who are putting forward their voices , and you need to have the time and the staff and I do n't think they always had that . |
| 24 | As her son Charles , the new Earl Spencer , observes : ‘ It was a dreadful time for my parents and probably the root of their divorce because I do n't think they ever got over it . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't think they ever got along . |
| 26 | I do n't think they ever stopped . |
| 27 | I do n't think I even heard his name . |
| 28 | I do n't think I even liked him very much . ’ |
| 29 | I had no awareness of the supposed stereotypical mother of that era — lipsticked and aproned , waiting at the door — and do n't think I even encountered a picture of her , in books , comics or film , until the early 1960s . |
| 30 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |