Example sentences of "[noun prp] thought he [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that evening , as the Churchill faction talked and drank and lived it out again , Bob Boothby claimed the honour , although Edward thought he had seen Leo Amery mouth the words . |
| 2 | At least that was what Steven thought he had shouted ; it might have been a different number , but it was something like that . |
| 3 | Ken thought he had got the idea of the play all wrong and I think in that I have to agree with Ken . |
| 4 | Phil who 's seventeen and works as a barman in Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire thought he 'd won one hundred and sixteen thousand pounds by correctly predicting the first three horses in the Derby . |
| 5 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 6 | The drum disappeared beneath him and Marie thought he 'd lost it but as it shot to the surface Gazzer yelled : ‘ It 's pulling him free ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All through The Graduate Nichols thought he 'd made a mistake in casting me . |
| 8 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 9 | SCHOOLBOY Robert Airey thought he had lost his best friend forever . |
| 10 | But presently the smile faded , and Ruth thought he had seen something wrong in her face . |
| 11 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 12 | Endill thought he had given up when suddenly the rope became taught . |
| 13 | Bryant thought he 'd lost it then ! |
| 14 | For instance if the policyholder is a married man with two young children and the value of the claim is $100 for the family , then to deduct four excesses would mean that the corporation would not make any payment for an incident where the Policyholder thought he had taken out cover . |
| 15 | ‘ Bexton thought he had gone back to Norway and no money had been left for him . |
| 16 | Jarvis thought he had read somewhere , or been told , that woodworm was most active in May , yet now in September those small heaps of ginger-coloured dust that lay everywhere looked fresh , and as he opened the door of Three a trickle of the same dust came down on his head . |
| 17 | ‘ Jamie thought he 'd bought Diconal — dikes , you know ? |
| 18 | For one minute , the most glorious minute in the world , Gravellier thought he had got through to him . |
| 19 | True it is that Ewan Beg thought he had killed his dallta — for I told him so . |
| 20 | Joe thought he 'd seen her once , riding in the back of a big car . |
| 21 | Now , just as Norman thought he had rekindled his old flame with a closing 63 at Montego Bay that would have floored anyone but Faldo , he must recover his wits again . |
| 22 | Ian thought he 'd won Cup |
| 23 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 24 | He actually had the ball in the net in the first half : City were playing a very boring offside game , Whelan thought he 'd got free a few yards inside the city half , but with Coton bearing down on him , he was judged offside . |
| 25 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 26 | Bingham thought he had discovered Vilcabamba , the last refuge of the Incas , thus giving a romantic conclusion to his archaeological studies of the Inca civilisation . |
| 27 | In our bed-sitter we used to talk about my cases , the funny things that happened on my rounds , but now , I thought helplessly , there was n't much point in telling her that AC2 Phillips was on jankers again , that vector triangles were the very devil , that Don McGregor thought he had discovered the secret of Sergeant Hynd 's phenomenally shiny boots . |
| 28 | Karelius thought he had heard of their champion , but could not recall the name . |
| 29 | Thus , when Dennis offered him exactly half what he had been making , Lauda thought he 'd had a touch of sun . |