Example sentences of "[conj] he think that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had the feeling that he thought that his father did n't look after Lou well enough . ’ |
| 6 | Jotan 's expression suggested that he thought that it was only a matter of time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was unlikely that he thought that he would be beaten . |
| 9 | The defendant contended that he thought that he was a good enough shot to hit only the bottles . |
| 10 | Erm , it 's quite clear from the district auditor 's letter that he thinks that we 're not being systematic enough , about what we do about environmental improvements , and it seems fairly clear to me to , that if we just push the to the service committees , erm , nothing will ever happen , except possibly on planning , and that erm , it will just sort of quietly disappear because it 's not the top priority of any of the other service committees . |
| 11 | Also he speaks very much in favour of jury service that he thinks that everyone is liable to jury service has a number of advantages . |
| 12 | Is the Secretary of State so arrogant that he thinks that he knows better than the people who are actively involved in the care of the mentally handicapped ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He has already signed joint-venture deals with France 's Aerospatiale to make helicopters and with America 's Pratt & Whitney to make aero-engines , and he thinks that his company is now big enough to strike more such international agreements . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I understood from his conversation that he was a druggist , and he thought that I was a druggist , too . |
| 17 | He was successful in the former , and he thought that he had laid the foundations for the latter . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And he thought that it did square , that there was a common root , a matrix of beliefs . |
| 21 | She turned round to face him and he thought that she had been crying . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 24 | The regulator , whose task has been laid down by Parliament , is perfectly entitled to come to me if he thinks that his powers are not enough . |
| 25 | The doctor may withhold all or part of the report from you if he thinks that it would be in your interest , or that of others , to do so . |
| 26 | The doctor may withhold all or part of the report from you if he thinks that it would be in your interest , or that of others , to do so . |
| 27 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 28 | Even an unscrupulous Sally-Anne could not quite kill her mama off completely — if he thought that her mama had bolted , well , so be it . |
| 29 | Ramsay asked Fraser if he thought that they could risk assuming the Regent 's agreement to this , and grinning , that man averred that Sir Archie Douglas would agree to anything that spared him trouble . |
| 30 | Well , she felt in a fighting mood , and if he thought that he could make a fool of her in front of his girlfriend then he was in for a big surprise . |