Example sentences of "[verb] thought that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 2 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |
| 3 | I should have thought that the present requirement of the whole civilised world is relatively simple . |
| 4 | Unless you happen to have a racetrack in your back gardens , I would have thought that the sheer frustration of never really being able to stretch a car like this is one of the main drawbacks to owning one . |
| 5 | To hear these " my dears " being so liberally dispensed you might have thought that the two girls had become bosom friends . |
| 6 | You 'd have thought that the enormous Ballroom was on fire . |
| 7 | But for 15 minutes before the curtains went up the audience must have thought that the obnoxious Sheriff of Nottigham was sitting immediately behind me … |
| 8 | Who would have thought that the dapper VIC REEVES and the delicate DANNII MINOGUE would shop on the same sartorial street ? |
| 9 | You might have thought that the last bastion of resistance to computers would come from the classic craft environment of hand animation . |
| 10 | I should have thought that the hon. Lady would now recognise that the description that I gave was entirely apposite . |
| 11 | I should have thought that the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury , as much as my hon. Friends , would strongly support that . |
| 12 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would apologise to the House for the last Labour Government 's appalling record . |
| 13 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman , who cares about these things , would welcome that . |
| 14 | You would have thought that the natural reaction of the teacher would have been that we ought to contact the father — better him than the nutty grandmother . |
| 15 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 16 | I had thought that the ghastly images of that awful day had been burned forever in the minds of anyone who saw them . |
| 17 | Perhaps they had thought that the first move should have come from their side . |
| 18 | When Ewen Mackay suggested that they had met before , I had thought that the other man had countered with a faintly wary look . |
| 19 | The main reason why scholars have thought that the forged passages conferring the primacy were already in the documents in 1072 is that , if they were not there , Lanfranc could not have said that these papal letters were the ultimum robur of his whole case . |