Example sentences of "thought she [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes after , she thought she might just live . |
| 2 | As she set down her cup , startling the sparrows , she thought she might even pack his belongings . |
| 3 | She thought she might even be able to get a good night 's sleep for the first time since she had arrived at the house . |
| 4 | When she bent her head towards his with her lips softly pouted , she came so close that for one brief moment he thought she might actually kiss his forehead . |
| 5 | She was so unlike the groomed and unemotional woman Charlotte knew that , for a second , she thought she might actually be somebody else . |
| 6 | She had been on the run since her conversation with Jack , a steady stream of nasty fractures and frightened children and anxious parents , and then , shortly after two , just when things began to settle down and she thought she might actually get some lunch , a car screeched up into the entrance and a man jumped out , flung open the back of the car and half dragged , half carried a woman towards the doors . |
| 7 | He thought she would probably hold them back this time , as she had mascara on . |
| 8 | She thought she would probably always wake before him , and lie quiet for a while , just being happy . |
| 9 | I imagined you let her go away with Steve because you … you thought she would finally get him out of her system , and you did say that you were certain she would return as you had something precious that Steve had n't got . |
| 10 | She thought she would also hint to Miss Potts that Alicia and Daryl were at the bottom of things , but she did n't get very far with this , she had to go and see Miss Potts about some returned homework . |
| 11 | But just now she thought she would willingly endure any punishment if only she dared take her hat off without making it perfectly obvious she was making a pass at him . |
| 12 | Carrie thought she would rather have been beaten , herself , but Nick was triumphant . |
| 13 | She sometimes felt depressed , and would ask her husband if he thought she would ever recover : he was always supportive . |
| 14 | Bienvida , being two years his junior , asked wistfully if he thought she would ever go back to Brian . |
| 15 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 16 | I thought she would always be there . |
| 17 | The occupational therapist had asked Esther 's husband to prepare a downstairs bathroom and toilet for Esther , as she thought she would never be able to go up and down stairs on her own . |
| 18 | Lee suddenly felt so sad that she thought she would never move again . |
| 19 | Ruth thought she would never forget the bereaved mother 's demented scream . |
| 20 | When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination . |
| 21 | She thought she would never dare touch anything in this house in case she left marks . |
| 22 | Carrie thought she would never be able to sleep , but she did — perhaps because she was pretending so hard — and slept deeply . |
| 23 | In the silence later , in the darkness , she thought she would never forget that . |
| 24 | She thought she would never care enough about anyone to give birth to them or to kill them . |
| 25 | The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them . |
| 26 | I thought she would never recover , ’ said a woman 's voice this time . |
| 27 | She thought she would never be able to bear it . |
| 28 | Words she thought she would never say to another man . |
| 29 | His whole body tensed and his eyes were so hooded with desire she thought she would never be able to stop him . |
| 30 | There was a time doctors thought she would never live to see it . |