Example sentences of "he thought the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The doctor had visited the man earlier in the day and said he would be back later that night when he thought the pneumonia would have reached its crisis . ’ |
| 2 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 3 | Laurence Tribe , Professor of Law at Harvard University , said he thought the session would continue to chip away at the broad right to abortion . |
| 4 | One delegate opted for Polish Labour Party because he thought the present name would scare away farmers and intellectuals . |
| 5 | It was not clear whether he thought the name should be changed or not . |
| 6 | He thought the first would be the most popular : all power to the STB ( the secret police ) . |
| 7 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 8 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 9 | A Corporal was indicating to Lovat where he thought the firing was coming from . |
| 10 | He thought the extemporary prayer very long and hard to bear . |
| 11 | He thought the lectures far too many and that he gave too many lectures for his own good . |
| 12 | He thought the post ‘ more exposed ’ , ‘ less cosy ’ . |
| 13 | He did not think Ramsey 's scholarship a weighty part of his quality as a bishop ; occasionally he hinted that he thought the books were a distraction from pastoral care . |
| 14 | He thought the agenda too large and the business too hurried . |
| 15 | I asked Mahmood whether he thought the attitude of the male strikers towards the women had changed at all . |
| 16 | By that I mean what he thought the girl was worth to him . |
| 17 | Harvey said later that he thought the decision had been harsh and added that there had been no warning given about time-wasting before the game , although he accepted that Tyson could have mentioned it to the players during the match , a fact confirmed by the referee as he left the ground . |
| 18 | He said that he thought the attack arose out of a personal dispute . |
| 19 | He thought the big strike vote was partly due to Ford 's record profits last year of £673 millions . |
| 20 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Italy would find itself in an easy group . |
| 21 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Argentina would be in a difficult group and Italy in an easy group . |
| 22 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 23 | For a second he thought the two of them were going to turn on him and hit him . |
| 24 | However , given that it had been DUP policy , he was opposed to changing it , even to the extent of the local option position , because he thought the change would be seen as a weakening , as a change of principle . |
| 25 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |
| 26 | His writings , particularly his Homilies on Ezechiel , composed while he was pope , show that he thought the contemplative life of monks would be best validated if it bore fruit in action . |
| 27 | In an astonishing verbal assault on the justice administration and on the civil service , Hitler — allegedly voicing the exact sentiments of a great proportion of the population — made it clear whom he thought the main culprits were , and threatened to remove their privileged position and ‘ well-established rights ’ and to dismiss offenders instantaneously . |
| 28 | Weinberger told his deputy , after the meeting , that he thought the initiative had been ‘ strangled in its cradle ’ ; his deputy noted later that Weinberger ‘ also believed that nothing was really dead in Washington ’ . |
| 29 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 30 | He thought the jerk would tear his head from his shoulders . |