Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You should 've thought of that , ’ said the foreman . |
2 | I mean , she 's told you about her three children but er I suppose she should 've thought of that , should n't she , before she signed on ? |
3 | We should keep thinking about this … the politics of the situation can hardly be ignored as the personal is the political , especially for women in Scotland . |
4 | It was the perfect cue for Gazzer to say : ‘ You should have thought about that before you shoved him in , should n't you ? ’ |
5 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
6 | I should have thought about this before , he thought . |
7 | Should have thought of that before . |
8 | He said , ‘ Shall I get a bottle of wine ? ’ and Val said , disagreeably and truthfully , ‘ You should have thought of that some time back ; it 'll all go cold . ’ |
9 | ‘ He should have thought of that earlier . ’ |
10 | Ole should have thought of that but he 's too feeble for executive commands . |
11 | Hardy should have thought of that and found them some more suitable conveyance . |
12 | Louise : You should have thought of that before you started fooling around . |
13 | He should have thought of that risk ; he wondered if Sims had thought of it . |
14 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I should have thought of that . |
15 | I should have thought of that . |
16 | Sorry — I should have thought of that before . ’ |
17 | Surely she should have thought of this before breeding from Poppy . |
18 | Cherub , you should have thought of this mate . |
19 | A man 's voice replied , ‘ Elizabeth , dearest Elizabeth , you must have thought of these things fully as much as I ! |
20 | You must have thought of some more than that . |
21 | I imagine you 'll want to think about that for a little while . ’ |
22 | And you 'll keep thinking of extra little bits he ah there 's another bit can go in there . |
23 | You might like to think about that before committing yourselves to this course of action . ’ |
24 | But since the so-called Society of Young Publishers has failed to take up my challenge to revive the panto , we 'll have to think of some other way to cheer ourselves up . |
25 | Well you 'll have to think of some . |
26 | I 'll have to think about that . ’ |
27 | ‘ I think I 'll have to think about that … . ’ |
28 | Now , however , the French , no matter what they might have thought of American rhetoric , could at least pretend that they took it seriously and that their actions were being taken in defence of ‘ the free world ’ . |
29 | Why speculate what Mother Anne might have thought about modern glues — they had none and she spoke to the brothers and sisters in their instant present . |
30 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |