Example sentences of "think he could [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because he thought he could cheat death . |
| 2 | He thought he could smell dope ; grass or resin fumes . |
| 3 | He felt he had said them before , and thought he could sense death sniffing at his shoulder , as he had that day on the Red Mountain . |
| 4 | How he thought he could love Mama so much and dislike her friends and relations on the grounds that they were Italian , I do n't know . |
| 5 | 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 . |