Example sentences of "thought he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 2 | Christopher Hart told police he did not stop because he thought he had run over a cardboard box . |
| 3 | He told his girlfriend he thought he had run over a box . |
| 4 | Karelius thought he had heard of their champion , but could not recall the name . |
| 5 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 6 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 7 | So under the surface of the thick glass lay a mass of long gold threads , filling in the whole cavity of the box with their turns and tumbles , so that at first the little tailor thought he had come upon a box full of spun gold , to make cloth of gold . |
| 8 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
| 9 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 10 | We all thought he had got over his illness . |
| 11 | He thought he had got in just about everything and moved on . |
| 12 | For an instant he thought he had rolled over a stone protruding from the turf of the clearing , then he realised what it was and his heart leapt . |
| 13 | For an instant , startled by that snapping sound , he thought he had trodden on a twig . |
| 14 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 15 | I thought he 'd gone off it but I got wrong bag . |
| 16 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 17 | ‘ But the other , the man , the forensic pathologist thought he 'd died from the effects of nerve gas . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't know about the woman and thought he 'd chipped from the left-hand side of the fairway to the right-hand side . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought he 'd reformed to be a daddy . |