Example sentences of "that she think [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This explanation is borne out by the remark of one middle-class housewife : ‘ I do n't go about feeling discontented ’ , the implication being that she thinks she might be expected to do so . |
| 2 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 3 | When I push her off me and over she whispers that she thought I 'd be tired at this hour of night . |
| 4 | Julia put the desolation that suddenly thrust itself into her mind down to her cold and said that she thought she ought to go bed . |
| 5 | Well , she asked me to kiss her , which of course I did , and then she said maybe she would n't marry him ; that she thought she might be in love with me . |
| 6 | Lee suddenly felt so sad that she thought she would never move again . |
| 7 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 8 | Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home . |
| 9 | An endless falling through time and space , and ecstasy so intense that she thought she would die . |
| 10 | The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them . |
| 11 | He put his hands on her shoulders , towering over her , his powerful body so compelling that she thought she would fall if he let her go . |
| 12 | He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness . |
| 13 | Piers turned around to face her , and for a split second his glance swept over her with appreciation , but the moment was gone so quickly that she thought she must have imagined it . |
| 14 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 15 | Every motion sent her senses reeling , deeper and deeper into the furnace they had entered together , until at last , as she soared to a height of such intensity of feeling that she thought she must burst , something exploded in her brain , and she was awash with the dizzying sensation of all-consuming love . |
| 16 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 17 | ‘ Well ? ’ he barked , clearly not ecstatic that she thought she could lay down conditions . |
| 18 | The hand under hers clenched on the settee cushion , his face went red , and his eyes flashed such vindictive rage for a moment that she thought he would hit her , then he controlled himself , sitting silently by her on the settee , until she felt his hand gradually relax . |
| 19 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |
| 20 | Luce sat perfectly still , her eyes on his face , her heart beating so loudly that she thought he must hear . |
| 21 | Arabel was once quoted as being terrified by a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Pathétique Symphony in Berlin so intense that she thought it would kill you . |
| 22 | As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated . |