Example sentences of "i think [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them .
2 I thought it did show up , but I mean it was n't part of it 's a natural part of
3 I thought you did work on something .
4 I thought you did ask some , there were a lot of good overall questions to start with but I think they tailed away very quickly .
5 I 'm not a church-goer. but I think they help solve people 's problems .
6 I think they 've got ta .
7 Erm , I do n't like long titles , and er , and erm , and I am wary also of the public protection words because I think they do infer , as , as was stated quite clearly at personnel , they do infer that the Chief Fire Officer 's somewhere in there as well , and he is n't .
8 I think they do have to go in , you have to go into each area
9 It 's just a little bit sort of er the waves themselves are nice but I think they do need something else in it just to erm break up the linearity of the er er , of the composition .
10 I take on a board all the comments that are made here , I I think they do need investigation .
11 And er to avoid a collision and in fact I think they did strike but I 'm not really sure , but to avoid a collision this one then goes over the other side of the road , picks up this Ford Orion coming the over way , rolls it over the bank , and it goes underneath the tractive unit of the artic .
12 And I think we did draw attention to the fact that er there may well in some instances be a conflict in terms of what Selby district wants and what current P P G advice suggests .
13 I think we did speak about that , the offie but mostly it was just the little house , outside Mhm .
14 And we , I think we did take some with us did n't we ?
15 I think we do exaggerate the importance of sex …
16 Well I meant to say , if , if , if we , if there is an assurance that elderly people are going to be helped , and there 's going to be a day centre there , I think we do handle the elderly pretty much anyway in this county , I would be certainly prepared to support it .
17 Actually , I think we do know how that comes about .
18 But the , the fact is , that what I , my plea to you today , and and my plea to the committee yesterday is , that I do n't want this to be in the political arena , it is in the political arena , but I think we do need to er er er take it out of the political arena , for the benefit of of all the people that that put us here .
19 But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe .
20 I think we do need to make some adjustments , in the light of that , if we remain in our present staffing level .
21 erm I think we do live in a patriarchal society where , even if , for example , some of the single carers that I interviewed — three were men out of eight or nine — and they had an equally hard deal , because the rules are stacked against people caring for dependents , whether the people who care are men or are women .
22 I I I think we do accept that you probably not be able to fill those gaps .
23 I think we do have to explain the , the re-establishment of authoritarian forms of government more carefully , we ca n't just assume that there 's a kind of almost instinctive hankering after it among the mass of the population because I 'm just not convinced by that at all .
24 I would n't actually say that you know , one has got to suffer unduly , but I think we do have to be very , very careful that we do n't just play into the hands of the drug manufacturers !
25 I think we do have
26 Good about everything , good salesmen , erm , but I think we do have to take er , Jack 's thoughts on that , that really perhaps we are begging the question when we , just forget ourselves and keep going till three , four o'clock in the morning whatever it is , and then we 'll get in the car and drive home .
27 On the other hand I think we have to take seriously what Mao is , is saying that and it may conflict with that , that other view of the countryside an an and we , I think we do have to take this evidence into account , I think it 's more important to accept what Mao is saying .
28 I think we do have room in our system for some semi-custodial measure .
29 I think that , I think she does make
30 I think she does appeal to the public schoolboy as the sort of mixture of the matron and many other things which psychiatrists could describe . ’
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