Example sentences of "you [vb mod] imagine [pron] " in BNC.

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1 You must imagine him answering the question in a fruitily quizzical , mostly oafish sort of way .
2 It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on .
3 ‘ You thought perhaps she might feel insulted — that you should imagine she could be so easily led ? ’
4 Although why you should imagine I would want acceptance into your family when I have a perfectly good family of my own , I have no idea .
5 The music was amateurish and the performers self-conscious , but the evening was so beautiful that if you shut your eyes to the cars and the new shop blocks you might imagine yourself briefly in Shakespeare 's England .
6 looking in one direction you might imagine yourself in Greenland ; another , and you gazed down upon a nest of' mill chimneys .
7 At this stage you might imagine your huge number of lace samples was enough to last forever .
8 As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made .
9 You 'll imagine your own .
10 it 's not the sort of car that you do that with , not with four anyway , you 'd imagine them having an estate car
11 Erm , they you would n't , you know , you 'd imagine she did n't have a very opinion of the male sex altogether would n't you ?
12 With all this , as you 'd imagine there are endless walking possibilities .
13 erm Nothing at all really at the moment , erm obviously it 's early days yet as far as erm speedway goes , I mean you 'd imagine it sort of getting a bit late in the day really , to get things organised .
14 Er just that little bit th that you felt , that I was n't , er you could imagine her doing it , you know .
15 If you could imagine yourself being without the radio , T. V. , or telephone then you just might come close to imagining how difficult it must have been to spread or hand on the message of Christianity .
16 If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place .
17 Well I mean you could imagine them loving it !
18 You could imagine him guaranteeing a lot of things , or at least saying he guaranteed things a lot .
19 You could imagine what it 's like .
20 And , you could imagine what Joey would have
21 You could imagine you were prospecting some dark land and seeing camp fires , or signal fires , or fires that were the only known evidence of a hidden tribe .
22 Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity .
23 Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity .
24 erm I would have to say in the university 's defence , as you would imagine I would say
25 thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them .
26 We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on .
27 You can imagine what an outcry there 'd be from women if we made some such generalisation about them , but we men are supposed to take this shit . ’
28 You can imagine what we are both feeling like …
29 Apple pie ( linked to eight — a gate ) : A huge apple pie with a gate in it — and you can imagine what you like when you get inside !
30 And you can imagine what that was likely to be .
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