Example sentences of "[noun prp] thought [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna thought she would need more than hot , soapy water to remove the accumulated grime . |
| 2 | Molly thought it would do in the morning , and then she said , ‘ Was it Mr Kettering who left the dog with you ? ’ |
| 3 | For a terrible moment Shannon thought she would give way to tears , and knew it was because of his fury on her behalf . |
| 4 | Sir John , his niece , and some other ladies staying there , Lady F. thought it would be less lonely for me being in lodgings solitary … ’ |
| 5 | Ruth thought she would have preferred it if he had shouted at her . |
| 6 | Ruth thought she would never forget the bereaved mother 's demented scream . |
| 7 | The Sound of Music star Julie Andrews was also considered , but Lehman thought she would be totally wrong . |
| 8 | Liam thought it would be best to join the Irish passengers at the latter port of call . |
| 9 | There were narrow high windows , far above them ; Fenella thought they would open on to rooms at a higher level than the ground . |
| 10 | FEW foreign brokers in South Korea thought they would see profits in 1992 , the year in which South Korea inched open its stockmarket to outside investors . |
| 11 | ‘ And I still ca n't understand why Caro thought I 'd like you . ’ |
| 12 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 13 | No matter how fast they travelled , the corridor never seemed to get any shorter and Endill thought he would be an old man by the time they reached the other end . |
| 14 | Ted thought we 'd have made short work of a mere hundred thousand Hun . |
| 15 | He insisted he had not abdicated , but what should he do know ? *q Before any advice could given , at least by the British the Shah and Soraya flew on to Rome — perhaps because King Faisal was embarrassed by his presence in Baghdad and perhaps because the Shah thought they would be sager and more comfortable in the Italian capital . |
| 16 | Carrie thought she would rather have been beaten , herself , but Nick was triumphant . |
| 17 | Carrie thought she would never be able to sleep , but she did — perhaps because she was pretending so hard — and slept deeply . |
| 18 | It would save the agony of trying to write letters and Tom thought it would be a good opportunity for Willie to meet them . |
| 19 | Robin , to his loathing , was put to work in a bank ; Lessing thought it would steady him . |
| 20 | In 1913 Lord Selborne tried to mount a campaign against the sale of honours but he had a lukewarm response : Salisbury thought it would not achieve anything useful , Lansdowne urged that the views of the party organizers should be sought , and Law urged him " not to obscure the Marconi issue " . |
| 21 | ‘ Lil thought it would do you good to sweat a little … |
| 22 | Jarvis thought he would enjoy hearing the sound of these trains while he was writing his history of the London Underground . |
| 23 | Miranda thought she would faint . |
| 24 | Rose thought she would forget Greg , too , but it was n't so easy . |
| 25 | Emmie thought it would be impolite to Mrs Sargent to let her see the clothes she had bought looking like that . |
| 26 | After reading the note , Blanche thought she would dispose of Taczek somehow with the same ease with which she refolded the slip of paper and slid it into her handbag . |
| 27 | Philip thought he would n't have minded going to his school . |
| 28 | The Wolf-Man thought he would n't have got far in that dismal profession , though success in economics , as in psychoanalysis , can be difficult to define . |
| 29 | I think Fancher thought I 'd have dope sent to the Voice . |
| 30 | So in some states it 's sixteen , in some states it 's eighteen , in some states twenty one er and Reagan thought it would be quite a good idea if they had uniformity across America er in which , you know , that they would raise the drinking age to twenty one er and this would then er reduce the incidence of teenage drunk driving and if you 've ever been in an American bar you will know you 're very often funnily enough they do n't ask me so much these days but you 're very often asked to prove your age , you know , er and you have to produce your driver 's licence and all the rest of it erm and so he increasing |