Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not think [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We have set up a Review Group but I do not think all action can wait on its recommendations .
2 I do not think that section 3(1) envisages any such act as an ‘ appropriation , ’ whatever may be the meaning of that word in other fields such as contract or sale of goods law .
3 The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . )
4 I do not think that research has gone as fast as it should !
5 I do not think any publisher has given any journalist that chance before in the United Kingdom . ’
6 But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then .
7 I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one .
8 I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical .
9 I do not think this difficulty is insuperable , particularly if one accepts that a single gene mutation could have a large effect in fitting an organism to a new environment .
10 I do not think this presentation advances the arguments .
11 After what has happened I do not think this girl will be able easily to adjust to a normal teenage existence for some time and I think any order forbidding her to see this man again would not only be unrealistic , but would place an intolerable burden on a young girl who , it seems to me , has had quite enough strain already .
12 Without the frequent and often detailed accounts in the Henley Standard — especially in the early , interesting years — I do not think this book could have been produced .
13 I do not think this association would have put Flaubert off .
14 I do not think this reversal did much to uphold the seriousness or credibility of the sporting authorities ; it did , however , solve certain in-house problems and — until Monza — lower the temperature in the great debate about Ferrari ‘ influence ’ .
15 Mother actually calls me Lisa but I did not think that name appropriate to this strange meeting and anyway I have never liked it .
16 I did not think this fellow would survive very long , he was what I call one of my " oncers " .
17 It was a fair result , because I did not think either side did enough to win . ’
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