Example sentences of "think he could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny thought he could probably find out . |
| 2 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 3 | He thought he could jolly well do it better than Hoomey and co : he could swim and run , at least , which was halfway there , and he bet he could learn riding quicker than them . |
| 4 | He thought he could simply invite her to sleep with him and she would obey like a lunatic . |
| 5 | He thought he could just about make it up the stairs . |
| 6 | The strong-bodied American , with his rugged features , had spoken with a quiet simplicity ; and as he 'd watched him and heard him , Morse thought he could well have enjoyed a pint with the fellow . |
| 7 | It is believed he thought he could no longer be charged over the under-age sex given the time that had elapsed . |
| 8 | On 13 December 842 , at the palace of Quierzy , Charles married Ermentrude , niece of Adalard , because " he thought he could thereby win over to himself [ the support of ] the majority of the lesser aristocracy ( plebs ) " . |
| 9 | Hoomey thought he could easily start frothing at the mouth , the way his colour had drained . |
| 10 | Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence . |
| 11 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 12 | A testator who had instituted Sempronia and Maevia heirs to a tenth each of his estate and a foster-child to the remainder appointed a curator for his foster-child since he thought he could rightly do so . |
| 13 | Daddy had n't saved any money because he thought he could always make more . |
| 14 | He did not think he could ever be that kind of person but Nutty said some of the best riders were the quiet , sympathetic ones . |
| 15 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 16 | I do n't think he could only |
| 17 | If it picked up , if he finds what I think he could probably find us I mean he knows precisely what we want and |
| 18 | If she ran away from Julius every time the conversation touched on the past or got in the least personal , then he was going to start to think he could still get to her . |