Example sentences of "think [pers pn] [verb] more " in BNC.

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1 I did n't think you want more .
2 Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’
3 ARE Soaps just right or do you think we need more fun ?
4 I thought you had more self-control .
5 I thought you had more bloody sense . ’
6 ‘ I thought you had more courage . ’
7 Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance .
8 We thought we detected more than a hint of irony in this answer , and we suspected that they were smugglers .
9 It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that .
10 I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did .
11 Remembering my conversations with him at the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976 , it was clear that he wanted fresh fields to conquer , that he thought he had more than proved himself as a racing driver and that he thought he could , with no great difficulty , follow a Bruce McLaren , for instance , and make his own way in cars of his own .
12 Certainly , the multi-studio techniques used for the famous 1959 Decca Aida were meat and drink to Karajan ; and although he sometimes thought he knew more than he did , occasionally putting paid to expensive equipment , his mastery was of an order not previously seen in a working musician .
13 Bernie himself was becoming quite fond of her and Noreen thought he saw more of her than of his sister .
14 Officially he had recovered nicely from the shock of his experience , but his sister thought he needed more time : she was mothering him .
15 I , I , I take all the planning and what the officer is saying , but I mean do n't you think it makes more sense from our point of view than we realize .
16 He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front .
17 You should worry , they obviously think I stink more than you !
18 We , one does n't try to lose things , but they just happen do n't they really I think I appreciate more now , you know when I was , when I was teaching I used to think oh stupid woman she 's not , to bring this book in and you know , and now I think oh dear , huh , yeah and you also appreciate the people , I would appreciate now those who managed to do it every day without fail , manage to sort of let , because they must of put themselves out no end to have
19 I think I have more chance of breaking into the England squad .
20 I think she understood more of his character than Estella did .
21 I think she saved more money that week on food .
22 You may not know exactly where they are , but I still think you know more than you 're telling . ’
23 But i you have , I 'm sure to go to people and not be at all surprised if some people you can never raise the enthusiasm , because that 's human nature , and you accept human nature as it is , but if you 're positive and encourage and lead without being coercive to a high degree , I think you get more responses .
24 ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’
25 I think you feel more of a person because you 're independent .
26 As for handling people , ‘ i think you have more problems dealing with the chief executive of a book-publishing division than with chairmen of health boards .
27 They think we know more than we 're telling , Charlie .
28 But , with the Cabinet decision and the Chancellor party to it , it was harder for them , and I think we had more success than most other governments in doing this just because I knew the background .
29 I think we pay more than that ?
30 The whole idea of judging by one hundred days was resurrected in the Kennedy time and people applied that to Wilson and to Heath and to Margaret Thatcher , and maybe it 's just a media hype , but I think it does give us some view and I think we need more of a view on this man , because a lot of people are saying will the real John Major please stand up .
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