Example sentences of "as [pers pn] think [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were mangoes on the table and flat bread and a dish of scrambled eggs , so I took a spoonful of egg and put it slowly down on the terrace , as I thought any human being would do . |
| 2 | As I thought these things , I looked up at the window . |
| 3 | While I have been busy compounding a kingdom here for my son , I have borrowed from the English as I thought fit . |
| 4 | Through the Second Son I asked as many questions as I thought sensible and it did n't sound like any malaria I had ever heard of . |
| 5 | where , as I think many people would say , most of the discrimination against them often comes from women themselves |
| 6 | But , for the children there was a lot of sadness and they desperately wanted , as I think all , most children of divorced do , to keep in touch with both parents and right from the beginning of a separation . |
| 7 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 8 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 9 | I shall use it , or not use it , as I think fit . ’ |
| 10 | The towers of South London glide slowly up out of the east as I think these thoughts , perform their well-rehearsed half-revolve and retire with dignity into the west . |
| 11 | Yes it 's very situational , erm I think , as I think human beings are so erm so , so I think you , you 're gon na have |
| 12 | He wants you to stay as long as you think necessary . |
| 13 | Please use them as you think appropriate — as a vein to mime for The Graduate , as props for Reunions , to archive , or junk . |
| 14 | I think the best way to proceed will be for you to produce as many captions as you think fit and we can then select from these during editing . |
| 15 | I shall be the director but you will work in the way you 're used to and as you think fit . |
| 16 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 17 | Write as you think fit . ’ |
| 18 | Whatever the answer , Philip will meet you at Strata Marcella when he comes from Isambard , and if the man will not come to terms , then it 's for you to act as you think fit . ’ |
| 19 | As soon as she thought this , she realised that she had resolved to do the very same every time she killed one of her pigs . |
| 20 | We destroy as much life as we think necessary for our own sustenance and preservation . |
| 21 | This number would also provide new interest for the revival — especially if , as we think likely , the obbligato part was played by solo oboe , not violin , making it the very first song of this uniquely colourful and expressive kind in English musical history . |
| 22 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 23 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
| 24 | But the practical necessities of treating patients remained , so the majority of physicians continued to use as many of the available remedies as they thought necessary , relying on their personal experience , the opinions of colleagues , and the reports of such trials as they had time to study . |
| 25 | And Pitt-Rivers was the first civil servant given the difficult job of persuading landowners that they ought to stop dealing with their property as they thought fit and hand it over to the control of a state agency . |
| 26 | He was willing to submit these terms to arbitrators to vary as they thought fit , but only on condition that he was to retain full power and jurisdiction . |
| 27 | I mean , only because others attempted to compel me to do as they thought fit in the matter of matrimony . ’ |
| 28 | In 1688 – 9 a number of radical Whigs took the line that James 's flight had brought about a dissolution of the kingship and a suspension of the constitution , and therefore the people ( through their representatives in the Convention ) were free to restructure the constitution as they thought fit . |
| 29 | Under Sch 6 para 12 , the directors may apportion the remuneration ‘ in such manner as they think appropriate ’ . |
| 30 | Clearly the Government decided to tread carefully so as not to offend the judiciary by appearing to interfere directly with their discretionary powers to sentence as they think appropriate . |