Example sentences of "[vb infin] think this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to think this year we will raise more than £6000 and reach the limit of 500 applicants , ’ commented race secretary John Holliday . |
| 2 | You would have thought this would be enough to keep him in bread and circus animals for the foreseeable future , but there are rumours that he intends to watch the money grow by buying out Jobete Music , publishers of the Motown catalogue — a snip at $175 million . |
| 3 | Most chess players would have thought this was inadequate to play Master-level chess even for a machine with superior positional understanding . |
| 4 | Furthermore , I think there is a problem for Christians today in thinking in terms of this non-gendered cosmic Christ which forms the key to her Christology ( and I am sure I should have thought this at the time when I counted myself a Christian ) . |
| 5 | I 'd have thought this was the place for you , Mum , more than anywhere else . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't have thought this was your way , Richmann , ’ he called through gritted teeth . |
| 7 | We would have thought this was a prime candidate for disclosure . |
| 8 | Oh , I 'm sorry , appear but er I 'd have thought this tree 's g er g erm willow trees make cricket bats , and cricket bat manufacturers will purchase willow trees . |
| 9 | You might have thought this sort of behaviour was all over . |
| 10 | Erm I would have thought this was welcome news in the modern world actually when you know all these people in the Middle East have got to live together . |
| 11 | I would have thought this was rather an enlightening view to take , but Semites erm , but there we are . |
| 12 | She proposes consequently the following paraphrase of I was sorry to fail : If I had known this : this will happen to me ( I will fail ) I would have thought this : this will be bad , I will feel sorry when I thought this : I know this now : it happened to me I felt it ( sorry ) |
| 13 | Yes , I would have thought this was worth a hundred only . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , I would have thought this would happen soon , or at least on the bench . |
| 15 | Now I understand er that you know we are providing public service here and we have got allow for public access but the cost of the council of having all its officers outside of this building for over er two hours must have been absolutely horrendous and I would have thought this would be an area where improving security ought to be a high priority so what are you going to do about it ? |
| 16 | ‘ I would have thought this latest case was deliberate . |
| 17 | I must have thought this morning . |
| 18 | Well , well I 'll have to think this over . |
| 19 | Nor did lie think this a bad thing since , as I had emphasised before , he hail little love for Coalitions . |