Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] thought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should 've thought you 'd be tired of that by now . |
| 2 | ‘ I should 've thought you 'd want him to know . ’ |
| 3 | He must 've thought they were going to kill him , but that was why they did n't have to . |
| 4 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 5 | I should have thought they might have had them in a separate house really but I suppose there wo n't be enough of them to begin with |
| 6 | ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again . |
| 7 | ‘ I should have thought your time would be better spent studying the common people . |
| 8 | ‘ I should have thought my meaning was clear enough , even to the most limited intelligence . |
| 9 | " I should have thought you were twenty-seven or twenty-eight at most . |
| 10 | I should have thought you 'd have found that out by now . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I should have thought you could guess that quite easily as well … ’ |
| 12 | Hugh was scathing about any form of non-structuralist criticism , particularly if it came from a feminist — I should have thought you and he would have had absolutely nothing in common . |
| 13 | I should have thought you were flogging on I says , you skiving sods . |
| 14 | ‘ I should have thought it was obvious , ’ said Robyn with an airy gesture that embraced the room and its furnishings . |
| 15 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 16 | Self-government failing to arrive — how extraordinary that he should have thought it would — a campaign for the non-payment of taxes was initiated in Bardoli , near Bombay . |
| 17 | I should have thought it was very ill-timed to feature this . |
| 18 | I should have thought it would have kept him busy until nine or later . |
| 19 | In fact , I should have thought it lost something , if you follow me , if you put it into words . " |
| 20 | ‘ As the boat you were using for your ridiculous smuggling attempt belongs to me I should have thought it was obvious . ’ |
| 21 | I should have thought it would be the easiest thing in the world to write a file on him . |
| 22 | I should have thought it was n't too difficult for other people to get the details right occasionally . |
| 23 | ‘ I should have thought it would be the other way round . ’ |
| 24 | Well that 's early , I should have thought it was |
| 25 | I should have thought it was at the bottom |
| 26 | I should have thought it would have been easier than that to put a new one in . |
| 27 | As an ex-schoolmistress I should have thought she 'd had her fill of children and I make no pretence at understanding them . ’ |
| 28 | Well I should have thought she would have said , well I 'll ring her . |
| 29 | I should have thought he 'd told you all about it by now , or do n't you two ever communicate properly ? |
| 30 | Shakespeare must have thought them common enough : in As You Like It a frustrated Rosalind says , ‘ I prithee , take thy cork out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings . ’ |