Example sentences of "who would [vb infin] thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 2 | Yet who would have thought I would talk to myself in this way in these notes ? he wrote . |
| 3 | HER contacts book was known to be extensive , but who would have thought Cynthia Payne 's network stretched to Austin , Texas . |
| 4 | That 's the only bait I did n't have but , who would have thought that with ice about ? |
| 5 | Who would have thought it ? |
| 6 | Who would have thought , for example , that the University of Colorado , where the students wear tie-dye and ask in hushed tones if you would like more salad , would become the national college football champion ? |
| 7 | Who would have thought that the Oakland As , celebrated by Mr Will and thought to be a collection of giants , would have been blown away in the World Series by a bunch of journeymen from Cincinnati ? |
| 8 | Who would have thought it possible in a boring little town like Surrey Hills ? |
| 9 | Who would have thought it would come to this ? |
| 10 | Who would have thought it would be her , Minnie ? |
| 11 | Who would have thought we would be watching the Kirov ( as they used to be ) performing a pas de deux from Antony Tudor 's The Leaves are Fading ? |
| 12 | Even so , who would have thought that Yorkshire would be seeking salvation by recruiting an 18-year-old from India ? |
| 13 | ‘ Who would have thought it ? ’ asked Fireman Robb , puffing as he lit his pipe . |
| 14 | Who would have thought the old man could be so clever ? |
| 15 | And the body of the Cid was prepared after this manner : first it was embalmed and anointed as the history hath already recounted , and the virtue of the balsam and myrrh was such that the flesh remained firm and fair , having its natural colour , and his countenance as it was wont to be , and the eyes open , and his long beard in order , so that there was not a man who would have thought him dead if he had seen him and not known it . |
| 16 | And who would have thought he would come home so early ? ’ |
| 17 | Agnes moved closer to her sister and cried at her , ‘ And who would have thought you were outside consorting with one of the Feltons , eh ? |
| 18 | Who would have thought that the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written could be encapsulated in a microchip ? |
| 19 | Who would have thought fevers were so interesting ? |
| 20 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 21 | And who would have thought that as we face the 1990s the social and moral habits of the 1960s should be visited upon us in the guise of AIDS , which threatens to sweep across the world with all the terror and destruction of the black plague in the Middle Ages ? |
| 22 | Who would have thought that the pattern would break ? |
| 23 | Who would have thought my shrivelled heart |
| 24 | Who would have thought that knitting could provide such a buzz . |
| 25 | Who would have thought that the dapper VIC REEVES and the delicate DANNII MINOGUE would shop on the same sartorial street ? |
| 26 | Who would have thought that a band named after a tennis player would turn out to be one of the best new things of the autumn ? |
| 27 | Come to think of it , who would have thought that the expanding , spruced-up pop campaign would start with a band from Holland ? |
| 28 | Who would have thought that the terribly modern Carter would end up having a crack at the Christmas Number One with a song written in the 1950s and once covered by Elvis Presley ? |
| 29 | But to resist ecstasy : who would have thought of such a thing ? |
| 30 | Who would have thought it ? |