Example sentences of "think it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who would ever have thought it would end like this ? ’ |
| 2 | Who would have thought it would come to this ? |
| 3 | In his wildest nightmares he had never thought it would come to this . |
| 4 | I never thought it would 'appen to one of me own children , the youngest too , what I was always most fond of . ’ |
| 5 | It was one of the best days of my life : I never thought it would come to that . |
| 6 | Who ever thought it would come to this ? |
| 7 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 8 | Erm , we thought it 'd appeal to young people and we thought it 'd be great fun , which it was , and we raised er one thousand seven hundred pounds . |
| 9 | And I do n't think it need come to that , not if it 's handled in the right way . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think it need come to that . |
| 11 | I do n't think it can go on that long because |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I do n't think it will come to that , June , ’ he said . |
| 13 | But he scarcely thinks it will come to that . ’ |
| 14 | I think it will emerge in different ways . |
| 15 | I think it will get to that . |
| 16 | Where it , I used to think it might touch on this |