Example sentences of "if [noun prp] think [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Offa thought he could attempt ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne , therefore , he was mistaken , and the likelihood is that the Frankish court had come to view his ascendancy in southern England with misgivings , destroying as it had done the traditional shape of political power in the south-east . |
| 2 | A mini psychopath , I thought , and maybe not so mini , at that , if Xanthe thought he should be in jail . |
| 3 | If Hugh thought she knew everything perhaps it was better that he should think it . |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry , no , ’ Ellie said dismissively , and if Phena thought she was also coming in for a chat she was mistaken . |
| 5 | If Gilbert thought it was part of her duty to track down Amy or help her in any way , then she would do so . |
| 6 | They had worked out their monthly budget to the last pound , and if Norman thought she was going to eat this overpriced muck with a perfectly good cold supper waiting in the refrigerator at home and a decent programme on the telly he could forget it . |
| 7 | If Constance thought she was learning things about Ludovico , it was nothing compared with what he was gleaning from her . |
| 8 | He looked in her direction and they exchanged smiles and Ruth somehow felt that if Steve thought she was in trouble and needed bailing out he would come over immediately . |
| 9 | ‘ If Diana thinks you 're a motto , that 's tops . ’ |
| 10 | If Diana thinks she can just try to have a normal Christmas without the boys she is going to have a very miserable day . ’ |
| 11 | Then suddenly she stopped dead , realising that , if Naylor thought she had n't yet completely finished with Travis , then he was just angry enough — and blunt enough — to do it for her . |
| 12 | What he could do , if Ritschl thought it a plan worth pursuing was put together a book of miscellaneous bits and pieces-part literary history , part " new ideas and views " ( neue Ansichten und Aussichten ) of an as yet unspecified nature , part textual criticism . |
| 13 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 14 | And if Danniella thought he looked out of place , she did n't show it . |
| 15 | If Felipe thought she would take the husband off his hands while he amused himself with Candace he was very much mistaken ! |