Example sentences of "think he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Captain filled in the space where Maxwell might have thought he had to apologize , and then asked him quickly : ‘ What did you do in the north of Italy in January ? |
| 2 | At the time , she had thought he had made it up himself . |
| 3 | He might have thought he had said too much on Friday , buying the umbrella specially and walking arm in arm with her , and be afraid she would think he had meant more than he had . |
| 4 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 5 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 6 | She had thought he had had enough of all that rural tranquillity , and had wanted to live somewhere lively and sophisticated . |
| 7 | She it was who interpreted for various French , German and Italian journalists as John Regis , our sole sprint medallist with a bronze in the 200 metres , told everybody that for one flickering moment he ( and many others ) had thought he had won gold . |
| 8 | He was smitten not especially by Sandra 's looks , but by her whole demeanour , and those who were around at the time must have thought he had understated his feelings when he said later , ‘ It was a no-big-deal act for me . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He thought he had missed his vocation and indeed he had . |
| 11 | He had a client who thought he had missed a fabulous bargain when he refused to buy a paste cross from an impoverished Russian aristocrat . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it could be claimed with some justification that moral considerations were involved in Gandhi 's decision to fast and that he did what he thought he had to do in those situations . |
| 13 | ARSENAL striker Ian Wright said after the game he thought he had snatched a late winner for Arsenal before Woods made a superb 89th minute save . |
| 14 | When he reached the spot where he thought he had seen her she had gone . |
| 15 | The other day he thought he had seen Fedorov again — the real one , that was , whose identity he had taken — in a crowded street near the Stefansdom . |
| 16 | I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question . |
| 17 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon said he thought he had seen it all but the hospital bombing had broken ‘ every precept of human compassion and morality ’ . |
| 18 | But presently the smile faded , and Ruth thought he had seen something wrong in her face . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Slater said , and Graham felt his eyes widening , that pulling back of the skin towards the ears he thought he had seen frozen on her face , Left ? |
| 21 | He spun on his heel and surveyed the forecourt in the area of the pumps , searching for something he thought he had seen lying there . |
| 22 | Later that evening , as the Churchill faction talked and drank and lived it out again , Bob Boothby claimed the honour , although Edward thought he had seen Leo Amery mouth the words . |
| 23 | He thought he had seen him , though , at Gamal 's soirees . |
| 24 | Mark Archer in the Financial Times thought he had written ‘ a marvellous account of a much misunderstood age ’ . |
| 25 | MICHAEL Purtill probably thought he had stopped being featured in the newspapers . |
| 26 | He was sitting in the deckchair Candy had vacated by the time she returned , and for a second she thought he had fallen asleep , his head tilted back against the wooden spar of the chair , his eyes closed , their long black lashes casting shadows on his cheeks . |
| 27 | Time and time again he would stare at the ground , hand on hip , if he thought he had received a bad call , and then swallow his anger and play tennis . |
| 28 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 29 | He had n't kept track , but he thought he had sensed Jitters going down . |
| 30 | He had such a huge lump on his head I thought he had fractured his skull . ’ |