Example sentences of "think he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
| 2 | It is thought he lifted the cab after a mechanical fault and it crashed on top of him . |
| 3 | He had always thought he had no illusions about the artificiality of people 's reactions to him , but some must have taken root unaware . |
| 4 | He 'd thought he had the longest living hamster in captivity . |
| 5 | One commentator has indeed thought he found an echo of Dryden 's translation of Aeneid 2 , 417-20 , in the opening lines of Canto 4 ; but I am persuaded by later scholars that the case is untenable . |
| 6 | Gaily had thought he stood a chance . |
| 7 | Thought he owned the place . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think they 'll mix ? ’ worried Larry , and she thought he meant the food but he meant the people . |
| 9 | As he came up over the rise he thought he heard a beautiful song . |
| 10 | Once he thought he heard a movement among the trees to the left of him , as of footfalls rustling the grass . |
| 11 | Someone was beating what sounded like a tambourine , and , high above all this , Robert thought he heard a flute . |
| 12 | As he opened the door and looked out he thought he heard the squeak of a tricycle . |
| 13 | He thought he heard the foghorn once , off High Head . |
| 14 | He thought he heard the clatter of it in the roads , oh it it had awful stuff of that kind . |
| 15 | Behind , he thought he heard the car surge forward . |
| 16 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 17 | Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair . |
| 18 | oh I thought he said a hundred and something pounds did n't he ? |
| 19 | I thought he said , Fridays , I thought he said a week Friday . |
| 20 | We thought he had a weakness for us and our Empire . |
| 21 | He had , he claimed , been superseded in a promotion which he thought he had a right to expect from the Master of the Horse . |
| 22 | Lewis thought he had a guarantee of a title shot against the winner of the Bowe-Evander Holyfield fight earlier this month . |
| 23 | That would have acted as a deterrent to any other doctor who thought he had a God-given right to take life . |
| 24 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 25 | Terry Venables thought he had a deal with Forest , having agreed terms with Sheringham , but then Brian Clough pulled the plug because he had no replacement lined up . |
| 26 | This did not involve the King 's government in any expense ; if people went overseas , presumably they did it in order to make money , and the King could see no reason why he should provide any of his not very plentiful revenue to enrich them faster , though he might invest money of his own if he thought he had a reasonable chance of getting a dividend . |
| 27 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 28 | Cleo thought he had a trickster 's face , like that of a malevolent clown . |
| 29 | Not that John-William was particularly opposed to revolution if he thought he had a chance of winning . |
| 30 | Harry thought he had a good deal to answer for . |