Example sentences of "[conj] they thought he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 2 | We found out that they thought he was the captain giving out safety instructions because we were about to sink . |
| 3 | McCurbin died of asphyxiation from pressure applied to the neck , but the police who arrested him said that they thought he was faking as he struggled for life . |
| 4 | I think Jeanette said Tom had that problem cos he did n't speak until he was about two and a half and they thought he was you know a bit daft |
| 5 | What was to stop anyone just shooting him if they thought he was worthless to them ? |
| 6 | If they thought he was going to stand in front of them like a naughty schoolboy , they were mistaken . |
| 7 | But even as she fumed she could see the sense in his ploy — nobody would be suspicious of his frequent presence in the nightclub if they thought he had something going with Rory . |
| 8 | police took him in that night cos they thought he 'd burnt it out himself . |
| 9 | Why should Billy 's Action Man friends take it out on him — unless they thought he 'd set them up ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Unless they thought he was a plant or a snitch ? ’ |
| 11 | We 're hoping he wo n't be there long but they thought he might n't be able to manage in big classes . |
| 12 | No but they thought he was far too good for him , put him on as trainee manager then they sacked him ! |
| 13 | And here were people who wanted him not just for the name on the letter-head , but because they thought he could make a positive contribution . |
| 14 | BOURNEMOUTH gave Harry Redknapp a £100,000 golden handshake when he left the club because they thought he was quitting football , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 15 | When he waited outside pubs , the pub-owners chased him away because they thought he had come to steal something . |
| 16 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 17 | I liked to think it was because they thought he 'd failed , that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation , but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking . |
| 18 | Three years ago Adam Dent 's parents took him out of school because they thought he was n't making enough progress . |
| 19 | It may be because they thought he has access to money or stores it there but that information is wrong . |
| 20 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 21 | Tommy , inset left , killed him when they thought he owned them £25 . |
| 22 | When the subsequent television programme was broadcast , he lost a lot of business from his Protestant customers as they thought he was receiving funds from the IFI . |