Example sentences of "[coord] thought he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the rest of us , he knew , or thought he knew , that in the 18th century ‘ the riot was probably a more effective curb on the government ’ than either the Lords or the House of Commons — ‘ England 's strongest countervailing force ’ . |
| 2 | First of all , he was answering ( or thought he was answering ) an appeal for help and support against the Turks from the Byzantine emperor — the Christian west should sustain the Christian east . |
| 3 | ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 4 | And , of course , he had — or thought he had — control of the Worm , the legend come alive . |
| 5 | After what he had told me , or thought he had told me , it must have seemed reasonable . |
| 6 | Experience such as Lexandro had gained , or thought he had gained , in the nerve-glove … |
| 7 | Preston knew what this was about now , or thought he did . |
| 8 | Many of them were predictably connected with the murder at the Turk 's Head and what he had seen , or thought he had seen , one night on the railway embankment that ran behind it . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , what Simon could or thought he could dispose of were the pictures . |
| 10 | Or thought he had . |
| 11 | He knew , or thought he did , what was right and what was wrong , and she was glad he did , or thought he did . |
| 12 | He knew , or thought he did , what was right and what was wrong , and she was glad he did , or thought he did . |
| 13 | I was always optimistic and thought he would come through . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The truth is that Patrick was partly terrified of Peter , who came up behind him and thought he knew better what he should do . |
| 15 | ‘ I looked down and thought he 'd let me fall too . ’ |
| 16 | He was worried by the results , and thought he must be dying to have as feeble a pulse as that . |
| 17 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 18 | The farmer 's defence was that he intended only to wound the thief , and thought he was entitled to do so . |
| 19 | Farrar was short with livery lips and thick black eyebrows , and Something was prematurely bald and thought he was really cool . |
| 20 | He tried talking but the teachers would n't listen and thought he was repeating words like a parrot or just being cheeky . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mr Pilkington of the English glass firm had an important meeting in Paris on 15 July 1919 , but he had missed the boat-train and thought he had missed the meeting . |
| 23 | She had known Solowka since infant school and thought he was often arrogant . |
| 24 | Hallin also represented producer , Chris Allison , and thought he might form a partnership with the band . |
| 25 | I got such a shock I forgot he was behind the glass and thought he was going to shove his face right into mine . |
| 26 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
| 27 | He was interested in the concept of the plays and thought he would like to bring them up to date , use original scripts and perform them on the move . |
| 28 | Parisian designer Jacques Rougerie obviously got rather tired of his new project — designing a Seine riverbus — and thought he 'd have a lie-down instead . |
| 29 | In 1810 , the Russian industrialist Jacob Sannikov stood on the New Siberian Islands , looked to the north and thought he had discovered a new land-mass . |
| 30 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |