Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [vb infin] thought [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be fair to John he may have thought he was on an already completed route , but the absence of the first bolt , a well established sign of a ‘ projet ’ , should have been respected . |
| 2 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 3 | Self-government failing to arrive — how extraordinary that he should have thought it would — a campaign for the non-payment of taxes was initiated in Bardoli , near Bombay . |
| 4 | He must 've thought they were going to kill him , but that was why they did n't have to . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not married ! ’ she retorted , and for a few moments as her world righted itself and she realised that she must have momentarily got her wires crossed , because he had already told her he was not married , she realised too that , up until a moment ago , he must have thought her — Mrs Barnaby Stewart . |
| 6 | He must have thought she was mad . |
| 7 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 8 | and is your Steve , he must have thought she 'd come back here with me . |
| 9 | Next , surely , he must have thought he was up against a demon intent on destroying him for no reason at all . |
| 10 | He must have thought he was Noah . |
| 11 | He must have thought he was dog cos you see him sniffing round . |
| 12 | After all , I came along when he must have thought you were safe to be a bachelor for ever and ever , and now he 'll never be a lord and everything . ’ |
| 13 | He must have thought I meant our marriage , I see now . |
| 14 | He must have thought I went there to take fold up routes ! |
| 15 | He must have thought I was bonkers . ’ |
| 16 | He must have thought I was an absolute philistine — if they have those in Vietnam — I mean China — I mean Vietnam ! |
| 17 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 18 | He must have thought it unnecessary . |
| 19 | Once he knew you 'd found out about the paintings , he might have thought you 'd go on to discover the truth about the murder . |
| 20 | He might have thought he had said too much on Friday , buying the umbrella specially and walking arm in arm with her , and be afraid she would think he had meant more than he had . |
| 21 | I mean , if I 'd got pregnant he might have thought it was his , that he 'd got better somehow . |
| 22 | He might have thought I 'd had one previous . |
| 23 | I thought , if he 'd been the one arriving in my world instead of the other way around , he 'd have thought I was just as stupid ! |
| 24 | Sir Anthony Browne reported from Surrey that he would have thought it hard to get the money in so quickly had he not experienced the goodwill of the people ; and Sir Thomas Darcy claimed that men were actually saying , ‘ if this be too little his Grace shall have more ’ . |
| 25 | It may or may not be that he would have thought it necessary for there to be a ‘ natural resemblance ’ ( such as the Vatican Declaration believes to be necessary ) between the male Christ and the male priest . |
| 26 | If he had been able to ride one of those he would have thought he was a millionaire . |