Example sentences of "she thought [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end she saw the giant fish-hooks come down down into her and she thought they would haul her out of the depths , but they did not . |
| 2 | When Helen told Price Waterhouse that this was what she wanted to do , she thought they would say it was all or nothing and tell her to pack her bags . |
| 3 | Well her being human , she thought it might damage our digestive system . |
| 4 | For ten years , Anne who ran a G P practice from her home at Wallasey , tried to obstruct her daughter taking cannabis because she thought it would do her harm . |
| 5 | She thought it would do you good to be taught belief . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They went into the boutique , Alyssia barely glancing at the racks of exquisitely made clothes , nodding distractedly in agreement when Nicole picked out an exotic pink strapless dress and asked whether she thought it would suit her . |
| 8 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |
| 9 | She thought she ought to tell them that she had planned to cook for Fernando tonight . |
| 10 | However , Betty did n't know Lord C very well if she thought she could embarrass him . |
| 11 | Hilda must have known all about it , so it just depends on whether she thought she could reform him , or whether she were content to take him as he was . ’ |
| 12 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 13 | She thought she could feel his eyes on her legs . |
| 14 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 15 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 16 | Maybe she thought she could know him better . |
| 17 | At eighteen he was tending bar in San Francisco when an actress , taken with his clean-cut good looks , said she thought she could get him a scene shifter 's job at the theatre . |
| 18 | She thought she could hear someone moving about . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps she thought she could learn something . |
| 20 | For a moment , she thought she could see it : fragile silver filaments of enchantment , gentle brittle frost-webs of something that was not quite light , but not quite solid , but somehow composed of both . |
| 21 | She thought she 'd upset you in some way . ’ |
| 22 | to do Aladdin so when she thought she 'd do it this year she wanted me for Aladdin . |
| 23 | Dane gripped her by the shoulders then , and she thought he would shake her . |
| 24 | She thought he would say nothing more , then he went on slowly , ‘ Gabriella and I were engaged for only three months . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She thought he might shoot her or her stepfather . |
| 27 | She thought he might take her hand as they left the floor , but he did n't . |
| 28 | For a second , she thought he might force her to respond , and she shrank visibly , her voice hoarse as she said , ‘ I do n't want you ! ’ |
| 29 | Her skin was burning as she thought he might touch her . |
| 30 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |