Example sentences of "think he [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 2 | Chris Singh thought he might be tempted to borrow . |
| 3 | I thought he might be called Peggy in the House for ever after . |
| 4 | Pa Grant demanded his removal from office ; other committee members thought he might be neutralised by making him treasurer . |
| 5 | He thought he would be reminded , as Vincent was , of their childhood nurse at Zundert , Leen Veerman . |
| 6 | He never thought he would be targeted again ’ , his wife said . |
| 7 | I thought he 'd be born holding a couple of dumb-bells . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We both thought he 'd be called to account in the end . |
| 9 | Mark Evans said it was a night of madness and thought he 'd be killed next . |
| 10 | I thought he 'd be thrown but he went through them like an express train . ’ |
| 11 | They thought he could be used at some time in the future even better internationally than locally . |
| 12 | Do you think he might be committed to do anything there and then ? |
| 13 | Also , I do n't think he will be dropped until Wallace is back — some experience is needed . |
| 14 | Futcher said : ‘ Short of getting a double-barrelled gun and blowing off his head , I do n't think he can be stopped . ’ |
| 15 | Do you think he can be persuaded to leave his orphans ? ’ said Julia . |
| 16 | I do n't think he should be treated any differently from the other horses . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you think he should be hanged ? ’ |
| 18 | She does n't think he should be allowed out . |
| 19 | ‘ The Major thinks he could be hurt . ’ |
| 20 | Nobody who knows Connery thinks he could be persuaded to say anything he did not believe . |
| 21 | ‘ I think he 'll be finished for this season , but we 'll bring him back for another crack at the Champion next season , ’ he said . |
| 22 | But I mean that , it is expensive to keep going to London and places like that , I think he should be reimbursed for it . |
| 23 | I do n't like Mr I think he should be sacked personally . |
| 24 | ‘ But he 's followed all the rules since he was given political asylum and I think he should be allowed to compete as an individual . ’ |
| 25 | And I think he can be regarded as having had first hand and very real experience of the problems of developing erm employment uses in the Greater York area . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a baby , ’ she said , ‘ he 's shrinking but I think he can be saved . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They said so , but from the blood marks the fuzz think he could be wounded . ’ |
| 28 | I like to think he will be forgotten as the belligerent sycophant of Fascism and remembered as what he was when I first knew him , in the years before our little war of 1914 , when he was trying to take London by storm . |