Example sentences of "thought he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he came round to gloat and I was right . |
| 2 | And I thought he came back again . |
| 3 | What do you mean , I said no I thought he does n't fancy everybody . |
| 4 | Charlie then said to me , though I thought he had n't noticed me , ‘ I 'll just be down , ’ as if I 'd announced that his taxi was waiting . |
| 5 | Mr Evans listened in bulging-eyed silence , and when he still did n't speak , even when she had finished , she thought he had n't taken it in . |
| 6 | Eubank took a comfortable unanimous decision — although I had him winning by only one round and plenty of ringsiders thought he had n't made it . |
| 7 | Owen thought he had n't better mention Monte Carlo . |
| 8 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Jarvis thought he had better get on with it himself because anyone Tina found would very likely default on the rent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I thought he had more than that , he was saying he 's got sex man |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | John Coffin thought he had never sat in a room with so many clocks . |
| 22 | Nick thought he had never seen anyone so transparent with joy . |
| 23 | Watkins thought he had statistically proven the existence of leys but his practical methods were inadequate . |
| 24 | He was an arrogant man who thought he had only to crook his finger and she would come running . |
| 25 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 26 | No I thought he had like |
| 27 | In fact , ‘ Damnation Derek ’ is a Christian who believes in ‘ Witnessing ’ and it is this simple , even commendable desire to tell others about God and all things Christian that has earned him his nickname ( 'Damnation' is n't his real name — in case you thought he had very unloving parents ! ) and which has made him a Playground Health Hazard . |
| 28 | The one time North thought He had really come through ( ’ Thank God — He answers prayers ’ ) , was a cruel tease . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I thought he fought well actually . |