Example sentences of "would think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as today , I would think . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ said Cameron , wishing that James would think harder and spoil less for a mere sporting occasion . |
| 4 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 5 | He was always careful to wash his chiselled visage , of course , but in a year of passion one would think some small scent would have escaped , a tracking odour that would put her senses on alert . |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 7 | What writer , after all , would think of despising a part of speech for performing its indispensable task ? |
| 8 | She refered to comments made in the High Court by Mr Justice Ward , who said of the Gojkovics ' success : ‘ This is a story of high achievement and , many would think , glorious success . |
| 9 | Greenaway has said he hates the idea of a shot in a film being only a preposition , linking what went before and after — but what writer would think of despising a part of speech for performing its indispensible task ? |
| 10 | You would think you were ashamed of it or something … |
| 11 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 12 | I would think that you should be wearing Lovat s tartan by this time ? ’ |
| 13 | Everybody would be sitting there round the table having their Sunday dinner while down below them the kid would think he had the only important world to himself . |
| 14 | HE : Anyone would think they were cutting it for coal-heavers ( pause ) or stonebreakers . |
| 15 | Few academics would think it proper to bring themselves before the reader in this way , particularly in a work of learning . |
| 16 | ‘ The sort who would think nothing of putting their rubbish out on the side of the road , ’ as one observer noted , ‘ but who still feel very strongly indeed that there should be no goldmining here . |
| 17 | It may be provided at Sunday school but I would think that the average Christian parents have the same feeling of unease about discussing faith with the children as they do about discussing sex . |
| 18 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 19 | Most people would think that ‘ the United Kingdom Government is not taking enough responsibility to protect the people of Hong Kong , ’ he argued . |
| 20 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 21 | Mr Savage , like Mr Yates , is an original , but only his most devoted fans would think him a lovable one . |
| 22 | FROM the way Soviet soldiers sometimes carry on , you would think they had not heard there had been a change in Germany . |
| 23 | She had made the mistake of assuming they would think as she did . |
| 24 | Maybe she would think that he wanted them . |
| 25 | If he went to the toilet twice in five minutes his Mum would think he was ill and she 'd be out like a shot . |
| 26 | They all fancied him and would think his wife must be a monster . |
| 27 | He suspected she would think that kitsch was something you ate in a wine bar . |
| 28 | Then he would think of the undertaker forcing that convoluted form into a cheap coffin and the lid being screwed on . |
| 29 | He wrote girls ' phone numbers in the back of the book so that she would think the stars were for something else if she snooped around . |
| 30 | Eleanor would think he was in a cancer ward and be impressed by his bravery and pity him . |