Example sentences of "[verb] think he [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd thought he might suddenly take off and run , but he seemed glued to the bench . |
| 2 | But he had not missed it as much as he 'd thought he might . |
| 3 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 4 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 5 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 6 | Now he would have even more cause to think he could use their past acquaintance as an excuse to be familiar with her . |
| 7 | He seemed to think he might feature in some pictures with a blonde girl . |
| 8 | He seemed to think he could carry her off like this , and get away with it . |
| 9 | He seemed to think he could walk in and out of her life at will , just as it suited him . |
| 10 | He seemed to think he should have a lot of attention . ’ |
| 11 | Oh I 'd 've thought he would 've done . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd 've thought he 'd 've talked to the gardeners . ’ |
| 13 | He knew May was not unhappy , but he did n't like to think he may have bored her . |
| 14 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 15 | He began to think he could be doing more important things like writing to everyone in the country , asking if he was their son . |
| 16 | Richard would not budge an inch : I began to think he must be mad or wicked — or both . |
| 17 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 18 | Dear God , he was beginning to think he would be glad of it . |
| 19 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 20 | And in the end I felt he really was beginning to think he might do it for me . |
| 21 | He was beginning to think he could not bear to sell it . |
| 22 | I like to think he would wish me good luck in the future . ’ |
| 23 | I like to think he will be forgotten as the belligerent sycophant of Fascism and remembered as what he was when I first knew him , in the years before our little war of 1914 , when he was trying to take London by storm . |
| 24 | I 'd have thought he might be impotent , ’ said Ian judiciously . |
| 25 | I would n't have thought he would have gone into the woods with Angela Brickell . |
| 26 | And who would have thought he would come home so early ? ’ |
| 27 | With these achievements to his credit one would have thought he would have enjoyed the support of the Council , but it was not so . |
| 28 | I would n't have thought he would object , I mean we have used morris |
| 29 | I , I would have thought , personally , I would have thought he would at least have chosen one from Mission Praise for the benefit of the be for the people who , who like |
| 30 | well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one . |