Example sentences of "you would think " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
2 | You would think you were ashamed of it or something … |
3 | 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 . |
4 | FROM the way Soviet soldiers sometimes carry on , you would think they had not heard there had been a change in Germany . |
5 | You would think he was a gypsy until you looked closer at his blue eyes and the dusting of freckles over his apple-blossom cheeks . |
6 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |
7 | They want to be slim of course , yet after months or years of dieting failure you would think that it was time to stop trying . |
8 | ‘ Well , you would think that ! |
9 | Looks can deceive , though , because to look at her you would think she was aggressive , or dead political , but she is n't , it 's just that punk is the look she likes , and what she 's aiming for . |
10 | There is more to running a boarding house than ever you would think Minnie and hardest of all is the impossibility of finding reliable and trustworthy staff who are not forever thinking of themselves first in a way we would not have dared . |
11 | YOU would think that none of the main party leaders would forget today , but past experience suggests otherwise . |
12 | ‘ From the way Himself carried on you would think it was all our fault , ’ Bob Merryfield grumbled . |
13 | ‘ You would think the beat constable would have the answer to that , ’ he said . |
14 | ‘ You would think so , if only to sell it . |
15 | You would think ‘ en suite ’ was the most beautiful phrase in any language , the lengths Marjorie went to introduce it into her conversation . |
16 | This train — every train ! — was so packed you would think there was no way through the carriage , but a constant stream of vendors , women and boys mostly , moved through between stations , dipping and ducking , squeezing past passengers . |
17 | The effect is such you would think a giant mountain range had been flooded and only the peaks are left showing above the waterline . |
18 | ‘ You would think , ’ said Val , ‘ that the cats would do the garden no good . ’ |
19 | Sacculina is related to barnacles , though you would think , to look at it , that it was a parasitic plant . |
20 | If you knew Ted , and you probably do judging by the amount of Christmas cards he gets , then you would think twice about being wicked and disruptive for the sake of it . |
21 | The voice he puts on for the customers , you would think he was in daily contact with the Lord Mayor or the Duke . |
22 | He 's drunk enough to float the Mauretania , and left me to drive him home that 's had so little over me lips you would think it was Lent . ’ |
23 | He was very proud of the new trees , you would think they were his . |
24 | You would think that a macabre form of nepotism had recruited hundreds of Count Dracula 's descendants into the higher reaches of the Civil Service . |
25 | There are so many bite indicators for use when legering you would think there was something extremely complicated to the simple action of a fish pulling on the line . |
26 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
27 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
28 | You would think that the ‘ dummy head microphone ’ for ‘ binaural ’ reproduction — stereo sound for headphone listening — would give totally faithful stereo reproduction as a matter of principle . |
29 | You would think that , combined , the talents of the Department of Transport and the Central Office of Information would be able to handle the native language and its syntax . |
30 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |