Example sentences of "thought he [modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he might want to be alone . ’ |
| 2 | He thought he would like to be more like her ; when she spoke people listened . |
| 3 | He thought he 'd grow to be an old man . |
| 4 | His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , what Simon could or thought he could dispose of were the pictures . |