Example sentences of "[adv] imagine that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adele duly did just that , fondly imagining that a lone fireman would come out to her East Street home in an anonymous van with the suitable cutting equipment . |
| 2 | ( And how could Gyggle have been stupid enough to imagine that he was dead ? ) |
| 3 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 4 | I had fondly imagined that sitting astride one of these slow , sure-footed and allegedly stubborn beasts would be a doddle — which it was when actually in the saddle . |
| 5 | Peter fondly imagined that the swipe machine was ‘ on line ’ to his bank , constantly updated on the state of his account . |
| 6 | ‘ It is commonly enough imagined that earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are two faces of the same coin . |
| 7 | We can only imagine that the long hours between distractions dragged interminably . |
| 8 | ‘ I can only imagine that it must be the drink . ’ |
| 9 | I could only imagine that Brian had managed to loosen his hands . |
| 10 | I can only imagine that shortly before the excursions a long double headed steam train must have travelled from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth , but I do n't know the times . |
| 11 | Now John says he he can only imagine that they 're selecting them out . |
| 12 | The senior American , and the New Zealander , were right-wingers of a purity I 'd thought extinct , little imagining that the vogue for radical chic — which had been the orthodoxy of the day in Toronto — was now no more than the memory of an ebb tide . |
| 13 | Yet it was hard to imagine a burglar visiting the rue de Sèvres : I rather imagined that this would be where he lived . |
| 14 | But I just imagine that I 'm wearing the most beautiful blue dress , and a big hat with flowers on , and blue shoes , and then I 'm happy ! |
| 15 | Thus imagine that the living world was really as imagined in Figure 1 . |
| 16 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 17 | We some special policemen to go down there and open these gates , and of course , you can just imagine that the policemen who came into Ipswich , they were pretty rough in their dealing with the strikers . |
| 18 | One could easily imagine that a visit by Dustin to Anne 's parents in Westchester would be similar to the scene in Annie Hall when Woody Allen has Easter dinner with his girlfriend 's cold and formal WASP family , who he imagines see him as a rabbi . |
| 19 | When people think of giving help or support to those in trouble they nearly always imagine that this help will need to be of an intense and emotional nature . |
| 20 | Labour Members always imagine that some service or other would have to be cut to do what is right . |
| 21 | Do you do you think erm your father when he started the shop in twenty six , would ever imagined that it could possibly go on to the the end of the century ? |
| 22 | Most people still imagine that all cats cover their droppings , but this is not so . |
| 23 | They hardly imagined that there were so many indigent , yearning , crooked , canny inheritors on the earth . |
| 24 | She had been heading for trouble by ever imagining that this man could be touched like any normal human being . |
| 25 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
| 26 | So great is our faith in identification , that we often mistakenly imagine that when a problem is diagnosed it is solved . |
| 27 | Miss Logan had further imagined that their journey , while devotional in its final purpose , might afford pleasant opportunities for sketching , the activity which had first established a bond between employer and companion . |
| 28 | I had once imagined that I too might one day be involved in that large , confusing family with its extended degrees of affinity . |
| 29 | Not that he considered himself immune ; but he had always imagined that when it was his turn , he would know somehow . |
| 30 | I had always imagined that they would put up and take down tents . |