Example sentences of "[noun] think she [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michel thinks she will be in for a bad time when she realizes it . |
| 2 | Donna thought she would need more than hot , soapy water to remove the accumulated grime . |
| 3 | Molly thought she must have seen something . |
| 4 | Reverend Pinkerton thinks she 'll be readily accepted . |
| 5 | Badgers have got a name for being vicious creatures , but Teka has taken to people so well Maggie thinks she must have been hand reared from birth . |
| 6 | Tallis thought she could hear the creak of a cart … |
| 7 | For a terrible moment Shannon thought she would give way to tears , and knew it was because of his fury on her behalf . |
| 8 | If the law thought she could be so , then the law must be an ass . |
| 9 | The older woman 's face puckered and for a moment Ruth thought she might cry — which was unthinkable in Miss Beard . |
| 10 | Ruth thought she would have preferred it if he had shouted at her . |
| 11 | Ruth thought she would never forget the bereaved mother 's demented scream . |
| 12 | The Sound of Music star Julie Andrews was also considered , but Lehman thought she would be totally wrong . |
| 13 | Katherine thought she might cry . |
| 14 | Grandma thought she might get you . |
| 15 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |
| 16 | Carrie thought she would rather have been beaten , herself , but Nick was triumphant . |
| 17 | Carrie thought she would never be able to sleep , but she did — perhaps because she was pretending so hard — and slept deeply . |
| 18 | Helen thought she could distantly recall having seen it open with her mother upended over it , rummaging . |
| 19 | sometimes I think that Shirley thinks she would n't understand anyway , what she was writing . |
| 20 | Deirdre said something like ‘ Humph ! ’ which made Sam think she would grow up like Miss Bedwelty . |
| 21 | Miranda thought she would faint . |
| 22 | Rose thought she would forget Greg , too , but it was n't so easy . |
| 23 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 24 | After reading the note , Blanche thought she would dispose of Taczek somehow with the same ease with which she refolded the slip of paper and slid it into her handbag . |
| 25 | It was not a meeting she was looking forward to , but Celia thought she could hardly get out of it . |
| 26 | Dana stirred her tea , swirling it round and round so rapidly that Claudia thought she would wash it out of the cup . |
| 27 | ‘ Many people thought she could leave off as she liked ’ , and others ‘ slandered and reproved her ’ for not looking after her home and children . |
| 28 | When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination . |
| 29 | Sally burst into such a fit of giggling , Jess thought she 'd explode from the tight lacings of her bodice . |
| 30 | I said the examiner thought she could be . |