Example sentences of "they think they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , makes them think they might come up do you want some porridge , mummy do you some porridge ? |
| 2 | Do they think they can get it up to fifteen ? |
| 3 | To put it another way : how did they think they could share their thoughts about the trick objects with another person ? |
| 4 | Immediately they thought they would make a fortune if they were able to sell this food in shops . |
| 5 | They thought they would go abroad . |
| 6 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 7 | Those who were not incontinent ( 3584 ) were asked what they thought they would do and how they would feel if they were incontinent . |
| 8 | Ninety five per cent ( 3391 ) would go to their doctor and only 15% ( 492 ) said they thought they would feel embarrassed by so doing . |
| 9 | They thought they would get a warm welcome when they offered the money to the charity-funded hospice in Milton , Cambs . |
| 10 | I think they thought they would find the treasure lying around on the beach ! |
| 11 | after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase . |
| 12 | They should be able to hold prices and they certainly should n't got up by as much as they thought they might have to put them up . |
| 13 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 14 | In the end they failed , but during their period of dominance they entered the sugar trade very successfully and persuaded the English in the West Indies to grow sugar to take the place of tobacco ; at first they thought they could absorb the English islands into the Amsterdam trading system , but while it quite soon turned out that this was not the case and direct Dutch influence did not last very long , the commitment to sugar dominated the islands for at least two hundred years and remained important long afterwards . |
| 15 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 16 | They thought they could do this first third this year , during the summer , over the summer months , if there was general agreement for the scheme . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I was outraged they thought they could tell a bookseller what to do . |
| 18 | They thought they could make fun of a country girl , but my answer took them by surprise . |
| 19 | It was a contemptuous sop of a clue , something they thought they could afford , but it might be useful . |
| 20 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 21 | that they thought they could develop and hav hold events on , and er , he said , like we , we came up with some good ideas , put forward some ideas , really good ideas , for things to do on this land , and he said , the trouble is that all these councillors back on to these pieces of land , and he said , er , they do n't want people coming along and enjoying themselves on it , because they want to go and walk their labradors on it . |
| 22 | I had thought that builders built houses when they thought they thought they could sell them , I did n't realize it was part of some altruistic policy of complying with planning policy , still we learn everything every day , do n't we ? |
| 23 | The reasons that Charlie Francis , Ben Johnson , Angella Taylor and the rest took drugs are that the rewards were great and that they thought they could get away with it . |
| 24 | Nearly a third said they would be unfaithful if they thought they could get away with it . |
| 25 | Goodness only knows what makes them tick , or why they thought they could get away with it here . |
| 26 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 27 | They thought they could regain his soul by sorcery , and so they devoted all of their time to weaving a spell to do so . |
| 28 | They would allow people that they thought they could trust to accumulate a lot of debt on it . |
| 29 | Another poll a year later asked respondents the extent to which they thought they could trust certain countries as allies in the event of war . |
| 30 | The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent . |