Example sentences of "i [verb] think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tend to think that it should really be left outside the development plan process and it should be for individual developers to prove exceptional needs . |
| 2 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 3 | At first I 'd thought that Kāli was joking , that she 'd sneaked up behind me , snatched the karaso and hidden it up her skirt or behind a tree . |
| 4 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 5 | ‘ I begin to think that you are the tonic , Miss Kyte , ’ he said jovially . |
| 6 | I begin to think that Mike Gatting may have lost it , but the Second Test is at Lord 's , his home ground and I would give him one more chance . |
| 7 | Now , I happen to think that Campbell 's idea is flawed because he wants to have his cake and eat it . |
| 8 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 9 | I happen to think that the prosecution here and the investigating team have done the very best of jobs in the right spirit and in the fairest frame of mind — of that I am totally convinced . |
| 10 | ‘ I happen to think that you are frighteningly stupid , and if you ever do that to me again , you will never see me again . |
| 11 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 12 | So what I 'm saying is erm I happen to think that the A L O stuff is some of the most valuable stuff that we do , it 's really one of the main ways forward and if we just sit back and do nothing about it it 's gon na just be wiped out at a a swipe . |
| 13 | Not that I knew any foreigners , though I recall thinking that there were two kinds . |
| 14 | And since the frozen peas and firm bandaging were applied by the fair hands of a comely maiden , I began to think that perhaps I could reasonably update my views on the ankle , Eros-wise . |
| 15 | I began to think that I was in an isolation hospital , until I realised that nothing at all happens after six o ‘ clock until breakfast next morning — not even a hot drink except in emergencies . |
| 16 | Yet , as I moved forward , I began to think that I was not so stupid after all . |
| 17 | Their minds were obviously not on meteorological work , and as the squadron gradually decreased in numbers with each little batch that left for home , farewell parties were a regular occurrence in the office and I began to think that perhaps Binbrook was not such a bad place after all . |
| 18 | One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman . |
| 19 | I began to think that Herbert must have greater expectations than I had . |
| 20 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 21 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 22 | And I began to think that if Uulaa-la was really as full of criminals as Frejji said , they were being very shy . |
| 23 | Although drummer Richie Hayward powered them through Blow Wind , Blow Wind , and the evergreen Key to the Highway , I began to think that Keith Richards ' X-Pensive Winos were a better band . |
| 24 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 25 | So no , I do n't think I missed out on anything , I like to think that I gained . ’ |
| 26 | I like to think that Miranda will survive her crisis and not be as depressed and defeated as she is now . |
| 27 | I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits . |
| 28 | In any case , I like to think that their manners were not so coarse . |
| 29 | I like to think that I am laughing at the idea , which has as real a set of consequences as bombs in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 30 | I like to think that the players and fans know I would n't do soemthing that . |