Example sentences of "[adv] imagine that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only imagine that the long hours between distractions dragged interminably . |
| 2 | ‘ I can only imagine that it must be the drink . ’ |
| 3 | I could only imagine that Brian had managed to loosen his hands . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now John says he he can only imagine that they 're selecting them out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Come now , you can not possibly imagine that anything could have come of your relation with that chit . |
| 9 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
| 10 | ‘ As you wish , although you can hardly imagine that Jones would mind if he did find out . |
| 11 | Nor did anyone ever imagine that such an attack could be made from the sea . |
| 12 | When planning such a design , you must always imagine that a vertical dotted line is running down the middle of the picture , so that the flowers and leaves must be the same on either side of it . |
| 13 | We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determines events completely for some supernatural being , who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it . |
| 14 | Those torches generate tremendous heat and I should also imagine that anyone who even contemplates using an oxyacetylene torch on an atom bomb is an obvious candidate for the loony-bin . ’ |
| 15 | Do you really imagine that your back is less inspiring than your front ? |
| 16 | She knew that if Phoebe needed her , if she could even imagine that Phoebe might ever need her , she would have no problem , no problem at all , dealing with Fenna . |
| 17 | How you could even imagine that I 'd — that I 'd ever — ? ’ |
| 18 | I can well imagine that you were protesting that there are behaviours ( like aggression ) which you simply can not ignore . |
| 19 | He is surrounded by a cast of variously eccentric characters , from her beefcake boyfriend ( I can well imagine that Kevin Kline stole the show in that part ) to his secretly fanatic prospective sponsor ( Imogene Coca , relishing every word of ‘ Repent ’ ) . |
| 20 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 21 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 22 | So we can just as well imagine that all the charge is concentrated at the origin of the coordinate system . |
| 23 | ‘ I can well imagine that somebody like you would strike a woman . |
| 24 | ‘ I can well imagine that you do not wish to leave here until you have proof . |
| 25 | However , they 're not too obtrusive , they do sort of when you 're looking at her shoulder here and her hand was n't there I could well imagine that you 'd get a bright highlight off her shoulder , so maybe putting hands there it has helped in er , er to , to eliminate that . |
| 26 | It 's obviously a show , and I mean you could well imagine that in the old days you need horses were really used to do a full day 's work , they did n't have quite such er nice clean tack a as these ones . |
| 27 | So one can well imagine that Grimes blew into Sadler 's Wells like an Aldeburgh gale , changing the coastline , breaking down bridges , and generally modifying the landscape by its sheer force and energy . |
| 28 | Although we only hear fragments of the storm , the music has such presence , and its elements are so cunningly chosen , that we can quite well imagine that the rondo form of the interlude is itself continuing outside in the darkness . |
| 29 | That is not in doubt , because no one can actually imagine that ‘ we ’ are not going to ‘ win ’ , though nobody ever analyses exactly what ‘ winning ’ would in fact mean out there in the real world of the Middle East , beyond the political and economic leverage it will give the United States . |
| 30 | We can truly imagine that the Community will be close to becoming ‘ our Common European Home ’ . |