Example sentences of "[pron] he think [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd come across someone he thought I ought to meet . |
| 2 | He had picked somebody he thought he could work with smoothly rather than somebody who might try to steal the credit . |
| 3 | He touched this leather , just brushing it with the tip of his soft hen feather , and it was drawn away in angular folds like bat-wings , and beyond a little dark door lay open into a tiny hole , into which he thought he might just manage to put his shoulders . |
| 4 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 5 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 6 | His espousal of Blast closed to him just those doors that were on the point of opening ; and twenty years later , when he desperately wanted such access to the power-wielding centres of society , he was condemned to the world of fantasy in which he thought he could influence United States policy by way of such unlikely intermediaries as Senators Borah and Bankhead , and Italian policy by way of Ubaldo degli Uberti . |
| 7 | But he had not moulded the politics of Britain into a form which he thought he could control . |
| 8 | She was regarding the Prince with the faintest and saddest of smiles , in which he thought he could read affection and indulgence , and surely also a soft , secret gleam of derision . |
| 9 | L.R. 162 was ‘ very close to it , ’ Ward J. defined the two questions which he thought he should answer , made findings of fact and answered those questions in the following passage from his judgment : |
| 10 | But Moore assumes we can ascribe inherent value to smaller units of reality and indeed this may be a necessary presupposition for the kind of calculations on the basis of which he thinks we should decide what is most worth doing . |
| 11 | He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality . |
| 12 | He calculates the car will last two more years after which he thinks he will be able to sell it for £400 . |
| 13 | Look how he scrubs around in the records to turn up individual cases of leukaemia which he thinks he can ascribe to nuclear energy . |
| 14 | So he re he represents sort of old fashioned moral values and he opposes the kind of fascism which he thinks he can see in Nick |
| 15 | As Endill approached him he thought he could hear a loud ticking coming from his direction . |
| 16 | Perhaps , thought Juliet , her heart thudding against her ribs , perhaps if he helps me he thinks he might fall in love with me too . |
| 17 | ‘ Somebody did tell me he thought they might be a tiny bit stronger than us at the moment . |
| 18 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |
| 19 | I remember a while ago someone told me he thought I should be wearing platform shoes , but we 're not into having symbols of different generations , we 're just into style as a ‘ thing ’ : we 're into flaunting things , it 's just part of what we are . ’ |
| 20 | One formed the impression that its editor gave his readers what he thought they ought to read rather than what they might want or enjoy . |
| 21 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 22 | Bernice could n't see what he thought he would be able to do even if they did catch up with the shapechangers . |
| 23 | For a bachelor , too , the working conditions and the pay were well above what he thought he could command elsewhere . |
| 24 | It 's a lot better than what he thought it would have been . |
| 25 | As soon as I 've proved you 're not what he thinks he 'll have to eat his words . |
| 26 | ‘ If Clinton can not get the economy started and has trouble financing his ambitious spending programme , you may expect a greater withdrawal from foreign commitments , trade sanctions — whatever he thinks it will take , ’ said one analyst . |