Example sentences of "he thought he 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought he 'd been there once but had no idea now . |
| 2 | He thought he 'd got too much club for his second shot on the 17th , and he did n't hit it all that hard — a 5-iron — so he came up short of the green , after being in the left-hand semi-rough . |
| 3 | He thought he 'd blown it , I know . |
| 4 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 5 | In that house lived a bricklayer who murdered the baker because he thought he 'd stolen one of his pigs . |
| 6 | WHEN Arnold Parker bought a chocolate gateau in his local grocer 's shop , he thought he 'd got a bargain . |
| 7 | ‘ Streuer was behind us and he thought he 'd seen a gap , but Steve cut across . |
| 8 | But he thought he 'd already decided . |
| 9 | Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love . |
| 10 | And he always tells me , he said that er he had no sleep during the night he he thought he 'd killed this man , you see , he says , I seen him drop , and I seen blood . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've heard about this sort of thing before , ’ he said , as if realizing what he 'd stumbled on , or at least what he thought he 'd stumbled on . |
| 12 | And just when he thought he 'd cracked it … ’ |
| 13 | And he thought he 'd landed but it was empty , it had likely somebody had got it before him . |
| 14 | It was evident from the young man 's circumspect excitement that he thought he 'd got his first genuine schizophrenic hypochondriac . |
| 15 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 16 | He thought he 'd got a job for life when he got his old mate Humphrey in as master — they were at school together , you know — but all that 's backfired pretty badly . |
| 17 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 18 | He did n't know what Gesner was up to but he thought he 'd better tell the Direktor . |
| 19 | At first he thought he 'd been burgled , but he was astonished to find when he called the police that they 'd done it . |
| 20 | The man later told police he thought he 'd struck a cardboard box . |
| 21 | He thought he 'd heard a sound , there towards the end of the parapet at the top of the steps . |
| 22 | Bobby Vinton 's ‘ Blue Velvet ’ is this week 's network chart number one ; he has n't had a hit since the nineteen sixties , and when he was told of his success in America , he thought he 'd been made the victim of a Jeremy Beadle style prank . |