Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pers pn] be the " in BNC.
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1 | From the behaviour of the Crown Prosecution Service and Scotland Yard when we presented them with our damning evidence , you 'd think WE were the guilty party . |
2 | Jesus Christ , you 'd think you were the bloody Queen ! ’ a voice resounded from the kitchen . |
3 | They 'd think it was the Mahdi 's skull all over again . ’ |
4 | To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help . |
5 | ‘ And , ’ I went on , ‘ I 'd assume it was the person who killed Angela Brickell who wanted to fix the blame for ever on Harry by making him disappear , only … ’ |
6 | She 'd pretend he was the servant , obediently paddling her down the Nile . |
7 | He said he said we 'd pretend it was the Crown Jewels . ’ |
8 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
9 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
10 | Anybody would think you were the King . ’ |
11 | ‘ Anyone would think you were the elder , ’ Anne complained one day . |
12 | 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 ’ . |
13 | He did it so cleverly that you would think it was the real thing — until he burst out laughing . |
14 | It 's to analyze that , you would think it was the cat 's face , but it 's the face of the cotes . |
15 | The people of Scotland would remember it was the SNP who voted with Mrs Thatcher to bring a Labour government down . |
16 | I do view this as one of the ‘ great classics but I do not know if I would say it is the greatest book ever written in English as I have not yet read widely enough but I would definitely say that for all the above reasons that it is a great book . |
17 | Well I , naturally , being a chemist , would say it 's the centre of science , but quite seriously it is an extremely important area . |
18 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
19 | In the corner of the picture was a holdall , a scientist would say it was the same as that used to weigh down Chalky White 's body when it was found in the lake near Cirencester . |
20 | Put your money on he 's one of the top in fact I would say he 's the hardest bloke in Shields him . |
21 | However , it does highlight a major problem that we have so far not considered — some would argue it is the major reason why interagency cooperation is so difficult — and that is lack of resources . |