Example sentences of "[coord] he thought that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was successful in the former , and he thought that he had laid the foundations for the latter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 5 | He was a convinced evolutionist and he thought that one could draw a line from the Egyptian lotus to the Greek palmette and from the Greek palmette to the acanthus which then developed into the arabesque like a biological affiliation . |
| 6 | Indeed , Fleury felt quite like a sculptor as he worked away and he thought that it must feel something like this to carve an object of beauty out of the primeval rock . |
| 7 | She turned round to face him and he thought that she had been crying . |
| 8 | From the river 's edge it stretched back on to the plain for a distance of over a kilometre , and he thought that it must contain well over three thousand men . |
| 9 | And he thought that it did square , that there was a common root , a matrix of beliefs . |
| 10 | She clung to him , and his mouth found hers , and she tasted as fresh and as new as the morning , and desire had exploded within him , and he thought that after all he had been wrong : once would never be sufficient , he wanted her for always , he wanted to be with her , to share everything with her . |
| 11 | He knew , as well , that Tree Spirits cling tenaciously to their homes until those homes become untenable because of the Tree dying and drying and he thought that Miach 's spell must have been stronger than any of them had thought for it to draw the Spirits so filly and so firmly into the open . |
| 12 | He reckoned that it was better for the new Iranian prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar , that the Shah stayed in Muslim country and he thought that Hasans influence would help " keep Khomeini under control " |
| 13 | I understood from his conversation that he was a druggist , and he thought that I was a druggist , too . |
| 14 | She was introduced to the novelist Mr Henry James , and took tea with him at his home , Lamb House , in Rye , and he thought that she was all the beautiful American girls he had written about rolled into one ! |
| 15 | Gregory knew he was writing in a rustic style , and he thought that this had certain advantages in terms of its accessibility to the intended audience . |
| 16 | And he thought that this is a motive which is operative in every human being , and can be called out . |
| 17 | Philip did n't know much about driving but he thought that maybe she was in the wrong gear . |
| 18 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |
| 19 | His resolve to live was great but he thought that his strength could fail him . |
| 20 | As the Governor observed , it takes more time to change attitudes , but he thought that progress was being made here too and that the new recruitment would accelerate the process . |
| 21 | Oliver did not believe her , but he thought that at last this might be an opportunity to escape . |
| 22 | But he thought that this interest was underexploited , even though not all authors were interested in , or had a talent for , publicity . |
| 23 | But he thought that it was as if Fael-Inis had somehow taken a shard of pure light and splintered it , and then scattered it about them . |
| 24 | Fergus did not say it , but he thought that Dierdriu would hear the cry , and he thought , as well , that she would also have experienced the immense lonelinesses , the sudden fierce panics , because it was inevitable that when you were a creature not quite Human , you would instinctively look for your own kind . |
| 25 | Joe could n't be sure without checking , but he thought that the street was somewhere outside of Soho proper and bordering on the fringe of Chinatown . |
| 26 | But he thought that the links were bound to become more tenuous when the institutions were paid for from different purses and had different bureaucratic structures . |
| 27 | But he thought that Mr Asquith might form a Coalition with the Conservatives , although there again Mr Lloyd George might be a difficulty . |
| 28 | No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer . |
| 29 | He did have a sister but he thought that , poor though his family was , it would not be very keen on her marrying a beggar . |
| 30 | He agreed with Lord Reid that the incidence of taxation would have to be allowed for by increasing the multiplicand but he thought that ten was the right multiplier in the case . |