Example sentences of "think he [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the threats , the insults , the accusations , had she thought he would never physically strike her ? |
| 2 | I 'd thought he might suddenly take off and run , but he seemed glued to the bench . |
| 3 | One of the crew , having his wits about him , joked that whatever was in the boxes should probably be fired into Iran , not sent ; the project officer thought he might well be right . |
| 4 | He touched this leather , just brushing it with the tip of his soft hen feather , and it was drawn away in angular folds like bat-wings , and beyond a little dark door lay open into a tiny hole , into which he thought he might just manage to put his shoulders . |
| 5 | Nobody wanted to stroke a Gnome , except perhaps another Gnome , He thought he might just have a word with Caspar to see if Fenella could be brought along to his , Inchbad 's , bed that very night . |
| 6 | I thought he might still have been there . ’ |
| 7 | I thought he would just pay up and then take her home . |
| 8 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 9 | We thought he would just get like a , a community service |
| 10 | He liked her quietness , her gentleness and he thought he would probably marry her one day . |
| 11 | In a flash of unusual sentimentality , Wexford thought he would rather be dead than be the man about whom a daughter could say such things . |
| 12 | ‘ Promises ! ’ she exclaimed on a loving laugh , and thereafter put herself out to be the epitome of all she thought he would most dislike in a woman , shyly calling him darling whenever she had the chance . |
| 13 | He thought he would soon be out of sight . |
| 14 | A fall on Kitzbuehel 's notorious Steilhang two seasons ago ripped his stomach , intestines and rectum so badly few thought he would ever walk again . |
| 15 | He thought he would never be able to preach again . |
| 16 | It was just before the Battle of Alamein — Bletchley was providing Montgomery with vital intelligence — and , had I but known it , Leslie was , almost at that same moment , listening on the wireless to ‘ One Fine Day ’ , and suffering because he thought he would never see me again . |
| 17 | A YOUNG cancer victim whose mother refused him treatment because he was too weak will be at home for the Christmas he thought he would never see . |
| 18 | The exercise would tire him — that always helped : he would seek out Joanna once more and that , too , would do something to unlock this pain of want which would rise up in him from nowhere , and beat against the walls of his mind until he thought he would never be able to bear it . |
| 19 | And although he seemed full of hope for the future , somehow I thought he would never be very rich or successful . |
| 20 | I felt sure that if Eric was alive he would write , although friends thought he would never appear again . |
| 21 | SCOTT Garthwaite 's mum Susan thought he would never hear again when he went deaf at the age of two . |
| 22 | I thought he would always make me suffer , whatever happened . |
| 23 | And er the sparrow thought he would maybe make it back to the mainland now so the peedie fairy climbed on his back and the sparrow flew it back to the mainland . |
| 24 | ‘ A challenge ? ’ she husked painfully , her eyes so wide she thought he must surely read the anguish in them . |
| 25 | I crossed the road and walked casually along a few streets , and for a while I thought he 'd probably be following at a distance . |
| 26 | I mean , it 's , like his car for instance , I mean , that 's always been a dream he never thought he 'd ever be able to afford a new car , erm |
| 27 | I thought he 'd never get the band off the road . |
| 28 | Johnny thought he could probably find out . |
| 29 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 30 | He thought he could jolly well do it better than Hoomey and co : he could swim and run , at least , which was halfway there , and he bet he could learn riding quicker than them . |