Example sentences of "he [vb past] think it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to think it would be years before he escaped until the day he bumped into Wednesday , who was now Sunday , as he tip-toed back to Nettles . |
| 2 | He began to think it must have been his imagination when a motorbike zoomed across their path , clouding the corridor with smoke . |
| 3 | He confirmed that he did think it would be for the best if I dropped out of family life , and in my heart , I knew he was right . |
| 4 | When they had taken him from the hospital block with his possessions and spare clothes in a cloth sack he had smiled and shaken hands and believed that the flight was close , Berlin he had thought it would be . |
| 5 | He had thought it would be easy to approach her , but now , watching her remotely like this , he knew otherwise . |
| 6 | If at first he had thought it would be sufficient simply to eliminate various shortcomings in Soviet life , Gorbachev explained , he was now in no doubt that nothing less than a radical reconstruction of the whole of society was necessary . |
| 7 | And when he sagged and said he 'd had enough of the place and it was not what he had thought it would be , she said life never was and that if he wanted to stay in Fleet Street he would be foolish to leave without a new job to go to . |
| 8 | He had thought it might be so and now he had the Proof . |
| 9 | After hearing his name on the radio , he had thought it must be just bravado on Paul Lexington 's part , the young producer falling into cliche , insisting that the show must go on when all logic showed it was impossible . |