Example sentences of "[noun] he think [pron] might " in BNC.

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1 The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes .
2 When she bent her head towards his with her lips softly pouted , she came so close that for one brief moment he thought she might actually kiss his forehead .
3 After the match he was asked what punishment he thought he might receive .
4 If he could make the shelter of the trees he thought there might be a chance of watching the high road from the wood 's far side .
5 And I do n't know , I asked th the chap from the I S D T A how many people he thought we might get applying , he said he thought , well if we got fifty we 'd be doing very well .
6 The gentleman in question did exhibit a certain alarm because when I told him why I was looking at his land he thought it might lead to a conservation order being slapped on it .
7 The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes .
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