Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] not think " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
| 2 | The issue is philosophical , but it is so central to the analysis of behaviour that I do not think it can be avoided . |
| 3 | Having sung the praises of swimfeeders I must point out that I do not think they are the be-all and end-all of barbel fishing , specially for the very big ones . |
| 4 | Where I differ from Bourdieu is that I do not think that this important distinction leads inevitably to absolute aesthetic relativism . |
| 5 | I agree with the county court judge , in that I do not think that Lord Greene had in mind what we have to consider here , namely , the position of a tenant , a person who has been a statutory tenant ( I am not begging the question by using the word ‘ tenant ’ but it is a convenient expression ) between the time when the order for possession is made and the time when it falls to be executed having regard to a suspension granted under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 . |
| 6 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 7 | When we met I told him that I did not think he had anything more urgent to attend to , and if he thought he had something more important , then his priorities were wrong . |
| 8 | How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers . |
| 9 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 10 | It was clear from Fräulein Silber 's face that she did not think highly of modern art . |
| 11 | She said that she did not think in advance about the possibility of him losing his seat . |
| 12 | Sergt. Peter Woodhouse of the Liverpool Police … she told the police that she did not think her husband was carrying out a strictly honest business . |
| 13 | It was robust at times , but there was never anything kinky about our relationship ’ and that she did not think he was capable of what he had been accused . |
| 14 | Margaret Irwin told the Royal Commission on Labour in 1893 that she did not think many women were " at case " outside Edinburgh . " |
| 15 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) who , if I have understood her words , made it clear that she did not think that it was a very good idea for people below the lower earnings limit to pay small amounts of national insurance . |
| 16 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |
| 17 | It was vital that they did not think he had actually seen what he was about to say Robert had seen when the electric light flooded the converted attic . |
| 18 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 19 | ‘ Police have told us that they do not think it was a deliberate attack on our house because I am deputy leader . ’ |
| 20 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 21 | Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark . |
| 22 | The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties . |
| 23 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so . |
| 24 | ‘ No-one is so old that he does not think he could live another year ’ |
| 25 | Mr Kidd said that he did not think the UK Government would follow suit , but believed pressure from a more demanding American market could encourage British hotels to upgrade their precautions beyond the legal minimum . |
| 26 | When Sarazen saw him , he decided he gently had to tell Dan that he did not think he was going to be able to carry his bag . |
| 27 | And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart . |
| 28 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 29 | Although he was engaged in a heated discussion with a journalist about the way the tour of Korea had been reported , it is unlikely that he would have said anything that he did not think his employer , the Princess of Wales , wanted known . |
| 30 | There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great . |