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I suppose – 27, 30, 45, 80, 102, 124, 149, 158, 164, 174, 218, 240, 251, 256, 271, 355,
362.
I believe – 173, 176.
I think – 48, 75, 82, 86, 118, 150, 173, 176, 201, 202, 251, 254, 317, 363.
I hope – 124, 143, 273.
thank – 23, 39, 103, 189, 210, 294, 355
Wish, want – 31, 66, 183, 305, 313
Say, tell – 48, 222, 238, 357
I guess
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M. Laurence The Stone Angel (LSA)

1. He’s okay, I guess. He didn’t say much. He had a half-bread girl there to cook for him
last winter, but she went away in spring and didn’t come back.”
“To cook, ” I said sourly. “I’ll let.”
LSA , SA, 148
2. Where’s Marvin? I don’t hear either of them moving about downstairs. Can they have
gone to bed this early?
Every last one of them has gone away and left me. I never left them. It was the other way
around, I swear. LSA 145

3. I will be quite, I swear, never open my mounth, not obligingly, keep myself to myself
for good and all. And yet, even as I swear it, I know it’s nonsense and impossible for
me. I can’t keep my mouth shut. I never could. LSA , 79
4. I guess maybe I shouldn’t have told you . LSA , SA, 64
5. Full of petunias, I suppose.
- They are – more like hotels, I guess. LSA 65
6. “Tina’s to have the brown jug, Doris.”
I know. You’ve been telling her that for years.”
“Well? What if I have? I like things properly seen to. Anyway, none of you will get a thing
yet. I’m only preparing against the day. But it won’t be for a while yet, I can promise you
that? You needn’t think otherwise.
7. I suppose that’s what you’re saying. LSA , 51
8.
- I find it’s well worth while.
- I want to teach?
- I believe.
LSA, 37

Canstative… LSA , 47
9.
- “I guess life must have been quite difficult in those days, eh?”
- “I guess you grew up on the farm, eh, Mrs Shipley?” LSA 35
10.
“Care for a little more lemon slice, Mother?”