Example sentences of "think he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaily had thought he stood a chance . |
| 2 | Once he thought he heard a movement among the trees to the left of him , as of footfalls rustling the grass . |
| 3 | Someone was beating what sounded like a tambourine , and , high above all this , Robert thought he heard a flute . |
| 4 | Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair . |
| 5 | I thought he said , Fridays , I thought he said a week Friday . |
| 6 | We thought he had a weakness for us and our Empire . |
| 7 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 8 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 9 | Not that John-William was particularly opposed to revolution if he thought he had a chance of winning . |
| 10 | Lewis thought he had a guarantee of a title shot against the winner of the Bowe-Evander Holyfield fight earlier this month . |
| 11 | Terry Venables thought he had a deal with Forest , having agreed terms with Sheringham , but then Brian Clough pulled the plug because he had no replacement lined up . |
| 12 | Quickly she banished the memory , but as she was about to declare she thought he had a sauce , he had opened the folder that lay on the desk and , taking out a sheet of paper , inspected it through the lenses . |
| 13 | He had , he claimed , been superseded in a promotion which he thought he had a right to expect from the Master of the Horse . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought he had a right to know , but I did n't want you to be told , not immediately . |
| 15 | Cleo thought he had a trickster 's face , like that of a malevolent clown . |
| 16 | Er yes I I thought he had a shop , maybe yes |
| 17 | There were five others , four whites and a black , and he thought he recognised a face from the Lord Howe gym . |
| 18 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 19 | ‘ I did pop round for a chat with him earlier this evening and I thought he seemed a bit jumpy . |
| 20 | Francis , hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets , said : ‘ I thought he seemed a bit queer at lunch but I did n't expect it to come to this … ’ |
| 21 | But he thought he knew a thing or two about muscles , and the knowledge that it was only a couple of big muscles that were keeping him alive was not comforting . |
| 22 | Cos they said , one boy , a boy , a police officer the other times thought he saw a boy with a knife and he shot him . |
| 23 | Once Sigarup thought he saw a tār , a flash of greyish-blue streaking away into the mist . |
| 24 | He thought he saw a movement other than the wind in the distance against the hedge on the far side of the field . |
| 25 | He thought he saw a rattle snake |
| 26 | He went to the top of the steps and looked around , he could n't see anyone or anything untoward ; he looked out of the window and he thought he saw a figure on or around the track . |
| 27 | For a moment he thought he saw a figure at the far end , waiting , but that was from the nightmare , too , just a trick of the light and the fog . |
| 28 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 29 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |
| 30 | Preston could remember his nan asking on more than one occasion , and his mum shrugging and saying , ‘ She thought he looked a bit like Elvis Presley . ’ |