Example sentences of "think he [vb mod] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a schoolboy it was thought he would have been in line for an International cap had the war not prevented all that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | People thought he might have been joking , but he was n't . |
| 5 | There was also there a vociferous ( John and later said they thought he might have been drunk ) Russian , about 35–40 who is currently on a short term study period at Florence University into the history of space travel and aeronautics . |
| 6 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 7 | I thought he might have been blaming you like he does , er blame you for moving all his letters when you have n't even touched them ! |
| 8 | I thought he would have been a real deep brown actually . |
| 9 | He did n't elaborate on this unease but Wexford thought he must have been worried lest the two hundred and fifty was n't forthcoming . |
| 10 | He had said he thought he must have been eight but that he did n't really know . |
| 11 | Some strange noises came from one of the children and Asik thought he must have been in pain . |
| 12 | If it had gone with his image , Nails thought he could have been quite interested . |
| 13 | I do n't think he may have been told about that , now he himself if he knew about that , that might be sufficient digging him over this hill |
| 14 | Ade had raced Yevgeniev a number of times before that , in Paris in 1985 and in the European Indoor of 1984 , and had never beaten him , and I do n't think he would have been ahead of the Russian this time either . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly yes , I do n't think he would have been too happy with any threat to English liberty . |
| 16 | ( You 'd think he might have been a bit more careful — after all , this was n't happening in the Dark Ages before birth control was invented . ) |
| 17 | I do n't think he could 've been insured do you ? |
| 18 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 19 | Sanders is a muddled old chap , but I do n't think he could have been wrong about anything as fundamental as that . |
| 20 | ‘ But I do n't think he 'd have been swimming here , sir . ’ |
| 21 | Hopkins , 54 , a reformed alcoholic , was desperately lonely at school and a poor student and he now thinks he may have been slightly dyslexic . |
| 22 | I think he might have been a security man of some kind , although I could n't prove it to you . |
| 23 | We think he might have been trying to find you . ’ |
| 24 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 25 | I think he may have been responsible for her unhappiness . |
| 26 | Levi would have understood that challenge , just as I think he would have been happy to agree that it is possible to speak without contradiction of the literal imagination . |
| 27 | Asked how Morse might have reacted to it , he said : ‘ I think he would have been rather chuffed like I am . |
| 28 | 1 think he would have been amused rather than otherwise at finding his own dishes reappearing as specialities of the starry restaurants of the 1970s , and pleased that reforms in the matter of lighter meals and more logical sauce and vegetable cookery which he had preached in the 1930s have at last been put into practice . |
| 29 | Asked how Morse might have reacted to it , he said : ‘ I think he would have been rather chuffed like I am . |
| 30 | I think , when I think it since , I think he must have been a remarkable man to work and slave like that . |