Example sentences of "he think i [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gentle , indeed ! ’ she said ‘ And if I were as gentle in the market as I have been for him at home , how does he think I would manage ? ’ |
| 2 | But did he think I could give an answer ? |
| 3 | ‘ Ask him if he thinks I might visit Mr Conchis . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 5 | If he thinks I can stand another night in that car , he 's even madder than I thought . ’ |
| 6 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 7 | So he thinks I should do you because he despises me , too , and he thinks I 'm God 's scum . |
| 8 | He thinks I should phone the hospital and discuss it while he has his breakfast . |
| 9 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 10 | And he looked at me , as if he thought I might laugh . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 12 | He was black , and perhaps as I was in trousers , he thought I might have known Sir Richard Whittington . |
| 13 | Perhaps he thought I might have an interesting story to tell . |
| 14 | For a moment I considered bolting , but I noticed that a young reptilian reception-clerk was watching me narrowly , as if he thought I might roll up a carpet and try to carry it out under my arm , and I became instantly obstreperous . |
| 15 | He thought I might know something and he wanted to do me a good turn . ’ |
| 16 | There was nobody more glad than him really but I suppose he thought I 'd go into debt or something but I d would n't do that . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , Ace is angry enough with me as it is , but if he thought I 'd betray … ’ |
| 18 | His grin suggested that he thought I 'd trade in my TI notebook for some new whizz-bang offering . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps he thought I 'd make the rehearsals lively . |
| 20 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 21 | He himself had gone to University College , Oxford , so he thought I should apply there , because I would have a greater chance of getting in . |
| 22 | When I got back , I found a card from Ivy asking me to lunch — yesterday — Thursday ; and John had written to Ivy to say he thought I could go , and so I did , and she was pleased to have the loukoumi . |
| 23 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |