Example sentences of "thought he [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 2 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 3 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 4 | I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth . |
| 5 | I thought he had probably made an arrangement with a brothel-keeper , and sometimes I pictured him clinging to the branch of a tree peering in the darkness through the window of some schoolgirls ' dormitory . |
| 6 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 7 | He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work . |
| 8 | As he tackled his cold meat loaf and salad , Hank thought he had better show some interest in his father , so he asked the back page of the newspaper if it had had a good trip . |
| 9 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 10 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 11 | Jarvis thought he had better get on with it himself because anyone Tina found would very likely default on the rent . |
| 12 | And then Fael-Inis stood up , and the Lad stopped and looked around , and his eyes fell on Fael-Inis , and Taliesin thought he had never seen such fear and such undiluted hatred in any living creature 's eyes . |
| 13 | Nick thought he had never seen anyone so transparent with joy . |
| 14 | John Coffin thought he had never sat in a room with so many clocks . |
| 15 | Watkins thought he had statistically proven the existence of leys but his practical methods were inadequate . |
| 16 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 17 | The one time North thought He had really come through ( ’ Thank God — He answers prayers ’ ) , was a cruel tease . |
| 18 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 19 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 20 | His students thought he 'd finally flipped and started telling fairy stories , but this was no fairy story , this was a real Gothic Horror . |
| 21 | But he thought he 'd already decided . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't I know that fella ? ’ said Dad , who because of his memory loss thought he 'd already seen every film or play he watched , had read every book he attempted , and knew every story he heard . |
| 23 | He did n't know what Gesner was up to but he thought he 'd better tell the Direktor . |
| 24 | I thought he 'd actually caught a defender as he headed it but er he has n't really got a good contact on the ball . |
| 25 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 26 | I thought he 's just picked me up . |
| 27 | thought he 's never had affection . |