Example sentences of "[vb infin] fooled " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 2 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 3 | ‘ You could have fooled me . ’ |
| 4 | As Major leaned forward over a desk , the backdrop of people walking in St James ' Park could have fooled anyone into thinking it was Number 10 . |
| 5 | Our rental car was called a Ford Escort , but you could have fooled me ; somebody had smoothed off all the corners . |
| 6 | It does rather spoil the fun , though , when the spoof is too obvious — the one in the 31 March issue was so obviously naive and reckless in its content that it could not possibly have fooled anybody with even a grain of sense . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Messrs Jarvis did produce an ingenious creature which , with its standard outer case , would have fooled even Burke and Hare . |
| 8 | Well , you could have fooled me , mate ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Otherwise he could have fooled everybody . ’ |
| 10 | Not that she would have fooled anyone as she was , but eighteen months of good food and expert surgery had transformed her , making the thousand yuan he 'd paid for her seem the merest trifle . |
| 11 | ‘ You could have fooled me , ’ said Penny Warlock bitterly . |
| 12 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 13 | ‘ You could have fooled me ! ’ she muttered , and took a hefty swig of her drink as his face once more closed up against her . |
| 14 | You could have fooled me . ’ |
| 15 | You could have fooled me , ’ he snarled . |
| 16 | The right hon. Gentleman could have fooled me . |
| 17 | ‘ You could have fooled me . ’ |
| 18 | They were not strictly speaking , ‘ Carry Ons ’ but you could have fooled the audiences . |
| 19 | And in considering how such things could have fooled some of our most eminent Baroque scholars and performers , I leave the reader to judge whether the question mark in my title deserves to be there . |
| 20 | Perhaps , to be a little facetious , an ancestral insect that looked only 5 per cent like a turd would have fooled an ancestral bird with only 5 per cent vision . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you could have fooled me . ’ |
| 22 | If it fooled you and you were — how shall I put it ? — intimately involved then it most certainly would have fooled him ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Could have fooled me . ’ |
| 24 | It seems police failure to raise a national alarm may have fooled Stewart into lying low rather than making a run for it . |
| 25 | All I can say having watched Torvill and Dean 's peerless and emotional performances … you could have fooled me . |
| 26 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 27 | Well you could have fooled me ! |
| 28 | You could have fooled me . |
| 29 | But if your repertoire includes standards like Wo n't Get Fooled Again , Substitute , and My Generation , it must be galling to be made to justify your desire to go out and play them . |
| 30 | The three best moments of his career were , appropriately , the concert highlights : ‘ Wo n't Get Fooled Again' , ‘ 5.15 ’ and , despite the easy jokes , ‘ My Generation ’ , whose lyrics still have some pertinence even when sung by a 45 year old . |