Example sentences of "[conj] he thought that " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ‘ arch-opponent ’ , as he called Palmerston , was ‘ once more the autocrat of England ’ , and although he thought that Fitzroy was on his side , he was ‘ sworn to uphold Lord P 's views ’ . |
| 2 | The party who supplies the infant does so at his peril ; it will not avail him that he did not know that he was dealing with an infant , or that he thought that his position in life was such as to make the goods necessary , or that he did not know that the infant was already sufficiently supplied . |
| 3 | Robert Kerr , on Donaldson 's suggestion , explained that he thought that styles of architecture were associated with particular civilizations and the architecture of the day arose with modern civilization in fifteenth-century Italy . |
| 4 | But this does mean that he thought that the law of value was the regulator of the Soviet economy . |
| 5 | When the counsellor asked him how he felt about not having sex , he replied that he thought that sex was often ‘ overblown ’ and that , anyway , he did not want to bother Sarah with his attentions , because she had so much else on her plate . |
| 6 | During 1964 a backbencher asked about the amount of news broadcast by TBC , saying that he thought that the Voice of Kenya broadcast more . |
| 7 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 8 | But all Anselm 's actions , both under Rufus and Henry I , suggest that he thought that too much importance was being attached to the disputed ceremonies , and that the real problems of religious life were at the level of personal attitudes and motives known in the last resort only to God . |
| 9 | Bill Gates , chairman of Microsoft Corp , told La Tribune that he was interested in developing software for digital high definition television , adding that he thought that the Japanese Muse system would fail since digital was the way forward . |
| 10 | At the time he told his son that he thought that he had made a discovery which would prove comparable in importance with those of Newton . |
| 11 | You will remember that he thought that contextual features might be considered in the way that general phonetic features are considered : sometimes , but not always relevant , and specifiable to variable degrees of delicacy for different purposes ( 2.2 . |
| 12 | He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge . |
| 13 | French maintained that he thought that the safety catch was on and that he had been struck a blow on the back of the head which had caused him to stagger and pull the trigger . |
| 14 | It was unlikely that he thought that he would be beaten . |
| 15 | Jotan 's expression suggested that he thought that it was only a matter of time . |
| 16 | Paul did n't keep a stiff upper lip because that was the way that he thought that Christians should behave . |
| 17 | As in the past , he was anxious to know what my new job was like , and it was reassuring for me to learn that he thought that such work was very much needed . |
| 18 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
| 19 | The chief executive of Coats Viyella said that he thought that there were 10,000 jobs at risk in his firm from the Labour party 's proposals for a statutory minimum wage . |
| 20 | At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country . |
| 21 | The Head of Department , however , said that he thought that the effort had been worthwhile and that he could not imagine any other means as effective . |
| 22 | The defendant contended that he thought that he was a good enough shot to hit only the bottles . |
| 23 | I had the feeling that he thought that his father did n't look after Lou well enough . ’ |
| 24 | Now the minister er er when in his speech earlier , er made the point that he thought that the proper interpretation in respect of all of these orders was a fairly wide one . |
| 25 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 26 | ‘ But … ’ she cut in , and could see that he thought that to cut in was his sole prerogative when his look became stern and hostile . |
| 27 | The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know . |
| 28 | He was successful in the former , and he thought that he had laid the foundations for the latter . |
| 29 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |
| 30 | This would revive the 1979 will with its power of appointment , and he thought that that more closely approximated to those intentions than the 1989 will without any such power . |