Example sentences of "thought he [vb mod] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hallin also represented producer , Chris Allison , and thought he might form a partnership with the band . |
| 2 | In his office the manager said that he thought he might have a part going , and then looked at Arthur for a long time . |
| 3 | He thought he might write a book about it all . |
| 4 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 5 | Originally , he thought he would become a poet and it was ‘ by accident ’ that he became a doctor . |
| 6 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 7 | Ken tried to make friends if he thought he 'd upset a colleague whom he did respect or value . |
| 8 | Thought he 'd make a killing , you see ; a lot of money to be made from property development . ’ |
| 9 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 10 | I thought he 'd find a way for himself in the end . |
| 11 | ‘ Hilary Frome would fuck the school cat if he thought he 'd get a kick out of it . ’ |
| 12 | Parisian designer Jacques Rougerie obviously got rather tired of his new project — designing a Seine riverbus — and thought he 'd have a lie-down instead . |
| 13 | Peering closer he thought he could see a smear roughly the same length on the jacket pocket , but the cloth was too dirty for him to be sure . |
| 14 | Far more pertinent was the fact that Mendoros thought he could see a gap in a market about which he knew a great deal , and which he reckoned could best be filled from the UK . |
| 15 | He thought he could see a figure moving in front of him . |
| 16 | In one dim corner of the little box he thought he could see an easel , and a tiny unmade bed . |
| 17 | He had not seen her face , which she kept covered with a scarf , but he thought he could put a name to her . |