Example sentences of "think they [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During their policy work on Mezey , NETRHA officers had initially thought they were significantly underspending on mental health . |
| 2 | So they must have thought they were still going in a straight line heading for the bullseye . |
| 3 | Instead , she had pushed the memories into a dark cupboard in the very farthest corner of her mind , and she had thought they were safely locked away , only now Julius had found the key and he was opening the cupboard . |
| 4 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , we must be getting downstairs or those poor men will think they 're never going to get that glass of sherry , ’ said Ianthe more lightly . |
| 6 | But er they 're never going to , I do n't think they 're ever going to get on top of the waiting lists because they 're introducing so many new operations . |
| 7 | Do n't you think they 're only using that as |
| 8 | Well , a lot of old folk er , I do n't think they 're much bothered what they say , they know the name of the candidates and they seemed |
| 9 | At first you 'd think they were just looking but really they were turning things over and over in their hands to see how they were made and checking out the cut so they could rip them off . |
| 10 | But I do n't think they were really going out together . ’ |
| 11 | One crew would control a real system and the other would think they were so doing but would in fact be in a control room driven by software . |
| 12 | Erm , or they stop , the current speaker stops thinking that somebody might want to join in , or the erm , spea current speaker chooses the next one , but the person they choose takes so long to actually respond , the current speaker carries on , because he thinks they 're not going to say anything . |
| 13 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 14 | I finally realized something was up because people were yelling at me — I thought they were just trying to get on but then I realized what was up , and I hit the button again . |
| 15 | I thought they were just gon na be a load of . |
| 16 | Anti-Nazi League festivals , at which The Stranglers were so familiar that everyone probably thought they were just park trees . |
| 17 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 18 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 19 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 20 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 21 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 22 | no only the red boxes , I thought they were already done |
| 23 | I thought they were out to get me to be honest with you . |
| 24 | I thought they were out to get me as a punishment . |
| 25 | He was so cunning about it that his dancers thought they were still working for John ! |
| 26 | Last year Detroit 's car makers thought they were about to turn the corner in their battle against the Japanese . |
| 27 | Just when you thought they were about to finish they would burst off again . |
| 28 | The five-strong crew thought they were about to suffer the same disaster that struck another British Airways flight in June 1990 . |
| 29 | So he thought they were about to become friends , did he ? |
| 30 | I think they 're just trying to relieve |