Example sentences of "[verb] thought [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 2 | Thus I learned that Chaplin was dead and so was Elvis ( I 'd thought the former long since gone but this intelligence of Presley startled me ) , that Iranians had held Americans hostage , administered show trials and televised humiliation ; that a geriatric cowboy had become President of the mightiest nation on earth all in all , show biz news . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have thought a whacking great palace more to your taste ! ’ |
| 4 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 5 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 6 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |
| 7 | I should have thought a little evidence of human frailty would merely enhance your reputation — and the association would do mine a power of good ! ’ |
| 8 | Typically they now run multinational operations , or parts of them , and spend a great deal more time in the air or in foreign hotels than their predecessors would ever have thought a necessary part of the publishing process . |
| 9 | You would n't have thought a small-circulation satirical magazine could excite such ignorant indignation . |
| 10 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 11 | I would have thought the normal procedure would be for him to be committed to Preston Crown Court and for the Crown Courts thereafter to sort out the final venue . |
| 12 | But I mean that yesterday afternoon you 'd have thought the bloody things were in here would n't |
| 13 | Erm beyond two thousand and six , I would have thought the strategic guidance would be in locations other than peripheral expansion around the Greater York area , which I would have suggested would would more than likely be to new settlements . |
| 14 | Who would have thought the ear-tugging parson to have such grace ? |
| 15 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 16 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |
| 17 | She would have thought the better of him for it as well , Lugh knew he could be sure of that . |
| 18 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 19 | If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied . |
| 20 | Who would have thought the old man could be so clever ? |
| 21 | ‘ Who 'd have thought the old bugger would come to life like that ! ’ she said to Nutty afterwards . |
| 22 | Few , including me , would have thought the third rate guitar outfit of old capable of such divine inspiration but ‘ Screamadelica ’ sounds suspiciously like the baggy generation 's answer to ‘ Sgt. Pepper ’ . |
| 23 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |
| 24 | He just managed to resist adding , ‘ Yours is twenty , and I would have thought the same went for her too . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd have thought the same thing would apply to you , ’ she said , evading a direct answer . |
| 26 | I would have thought the three , the first three , the first would of been three , right , but still , you know we want |
| 27 | ‘ If Charles had hung around long enough to notice the state I saw you in , he 'd have thought the worst had happened , Virginia . |
| 28 | If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks . |
| 29 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 30 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |