Example sentences of "[conj] we think [pron] would " in BNC.

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1 All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club .
2 But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere .
3 The dicta in Reg. v. Director of Serious Fraud Office , Ex parte Saunders are not , of course , binding on us , but they are so closely linked to the ratio that we think it would be wrong to depart from them .
4 There are many less ACE machines around than we thought there would be by this time , ’ he added .
5 Whether it 's a knitted or fabric item , suitable fillings will be required so we thought we would tell you about a couple of products from Abbey Quilting Ltd , a company which specialises in wadding and filling products for craftwork .
6 We decided to move the chairs out to make more room , but the acceptances kept coming in so we thought we 'd open the French windows and pray for a sunny day . ’
7 But in this programme you 'll appreciate this planned months , its planned , when did I first contact you ? , oh February was n't it , right , so we thought we 'd have pictures here and Sue would be talking in front of the pictures .
8 ‘ Oh , you let slip a word about it , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ something about making two dozen sausage rolls , so we thought we 'd come along . ’
9 We 've got two children at the swimming club here , so we thought we 'd do this while we wait for them .
10 Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses .
11 Steve Brown 's name came up , and we thought we 'd do one track with him , but we got on great , which solved that problem .
12 ‘ When we started off it was meant to be a serious underground label and we thought we 'd just do a couple of thousand .
13 ’ We wrote the single after moving into a little village and seeing all the people driving to their office jobs and we thought we 'd have a go at them ’
14 Oh very good , yes , aha , so er Jim 's been very busy with his talks and different things and er we packed in , you know , after Christmas cos we both worked and we thought we 'd have it , you know , and we caught this flu bug and
15 But when he said , we thought it would be a good idea , we took a Ali erm , erm mum took Alex over to Craigmiller Park , and we thought it would be a good idea if she just stayed there overnight because if she wa if she 's escaped it by , you know , tomorrow then she should really you know , be safe and , and
16 Erm , we thought it 'd appeal to young people and we thought it 'd be great fun , which it was , and we raised er one thousand seven hundred pounds .
17 Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us .
18 Well I 'm going to buy the two and I 'm going to buy the two boys pyjamas and two girls night shirts and we thought you 'd buy the slippers .
19 He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village .
20 I do n't know cos we thought you 'd be the only one who actually managed to get a copy when nobody else could lay their fice for the af from two o'clock in the afternoon yeah F finalised
21 We could n't sport the name of Dark or Phillips or Brown or Davies or any other Worcester paddler who went out to give their all but we thought we would have a go .
22 ‘ We could do the quickstep and the waltz but we thought we 'd join to learn the more complicated dances like the tango and the slow foxtrot , ’ Anne told Joe .
23 On the major question of the legal basis for pension schemes in the future , Mr. Murphy said ‘ The Working Party consider that the principles of trust law appropriately updated , continue to be valid , but we think it would be right for the central principles of trust law to be re-stated and put into the context of pension schemes .
24 The date is not certain , but we think it would be somewhere around 1925 .
25 We love him he 's thirteen years old so we we decided to get a a puppy because we thought we 'd we would n't want to get one when he departs this world because you can never replace them .
26 It is also the year when Jim Bob Morrison will apologetically say : ‘ We 're only doing this because we thought it would be funny … once !
27 We — we asked her , sir , because we thought it would be — be awfully jolly , sir , to have her with us . ’
28 Domestic consumption fell by 1 per dent ‘ whereas we thought it would be up by 1 per cent ’ said Dicks , and he reaffirmed his belief that ‘ recovery would have to come from domestic consumption ’ .
29 Being such an " odd bod " he was the butt of many who took the opportunity to make it known that he was different from us , and whether we thought we would in time change him was something that was a hope — happily a fond hope .
30 We were a little disappointed — or at least I was — with David because he was n't in a dress and he was n't nearly as crazy as we thought he would be , but nevertheless , we liked his music a lot and he introduced us from the audience and Cherry Vanilla stood up and popped out a tit for the other 20 people , and David said that we were doing Pork .
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