Example sentences of "you would think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ye would think I was a dog , ’ he said , ‘ the way she looks at me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well … you 'd think a man with so many kids would make an effort , would n't you ? |
| 3 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 4 | At first you 'd think they were just looking but really they were turning things over and over in their hands to see how they were made and checking out the cut so they could rip them off . |
| 5 | But the Oxford guest said , ‘ You 'd think with all this unemployment … there seem to be an extraordinary number of people around who do n't want to work . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ McIniff was blackguard enough to do that but you 'd think that at least he 'd be ashamed to tell it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd think she 'd have more sense at her age . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd allow for that on a day the like of this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd think people would have heed , but no heed , never any heed , no care for anybody else , ’ he complained as he drove ; but before the bridge he startled them by driving the car into the space in front of McCabe 's and announcing that they would walk the rest of the way through the village . |
| 11 | ‘ If he 's finished you 'd think he 'd have the manners not to leave the table in such a mess , ’ the girls would grumble ; but they or Rose would always put his books away . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd think after all that that she 'd say what his lordship was actually doing in London . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd think , ’ she said to herself , ‘ that the larger the tree , the larger the seed , like eggs — but a chestnut is larger than an acorn. , |
| 14 | You 'd think it was all really important . |
| 15 | If they can build aqueducts you 'd think they could engineer a wallet to keep their money in . |
| 16 | This may sound like standard Sunday Sport fare , but some people sincerely believe it , and more than you 'd think — the UFO business can be very big business indeed |
| 17 | ‘ After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’ |
| 18 | But if you could see me , you 'd think me but a sorry object to hobble to an altar . |
| 19 | He turned his head , mouthing eagerly , and found the nipple so fast you 'd think it was made of iron and he was a magnet . |
| 20 | Even if their trade were seasonal , in some way , you 'd think they would have horses and carts of their own . |
| 21 | ‘ Technically , the shots are much simpler than you 'd think . |
| 22 | I expect you 'd think nothing to her . |
| 23 | That ‘ I knew the moment I saw him ’ ? ( people do say that about their men , more often than you 'd think ) . |
| 24 | Some of us were great courtesans very definitely , certainly Stella sitting on her stool at the bar , you 'd think she was in pearls the way she sat there . |
| 25 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 26 | They extended a half inch beyond my toes but the way he spoke you 'd think I was John A. ‘ Snowshoe ’ Thomson . |
| 27 | You 'd think people only bought newspapers to see what 's happened to the Feltons . |
| 28 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
| 29 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |
| 30 | Then after one chime , you 'd think : ‘ It must be three o'clock now . ’ |