Example sentences of "think it [vb mod] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you ever thought it might have been Mrs Downes who killed Dr Kemp ? |
| 2 | I would have thought it would have been better in the introduction rather as part of the minutes , would you not have thought so ? |
| 3 | And perhaps secondly erm there is not a body of information which has been submitted to er this examination public which advises you in detail on the various issues that we think need to be addressed leading to the erm proposal occasions and I would have thought it would have been difficult for the panel to come to a a conclusion but I may be wrong on that . |
| 4 | You would have thought it would have been good for them . |
| 5 | No I would n't have thought it I would n't have thought it would have been |
| 6 | I should have thought it would have been easier than that to put a new one in . |
| 7 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 8 | But now it 's thought it may have been plundered from the pension fund , and passed to Phusi through an intermediate company . |
| 9 | I would have thought it should have been a national effort . |
| 10 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 11 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 12 | It 's a lot better than what he thought it would have been . |
| 13 | My kit being near the casualty ( by now conscious ) , I thought it may have been mistakenly picked up . |
| 14 | Charlton thought it may have been a kind of store-yard where goods for the abbey were landed and deposited . |
| 15 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 16 | That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ? |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it might have been cleared up by now … |
| 18 | Have you ever come out in a rash after working in the garden , and thought it might have been caused by a plant you were handling ? |
| 19 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 20 | Then we thought it might have been something criminal — but Joe is clever enough to steer clear of anything illegal , the last think he needs is investigation by the police . |
| 21 | Finally , we thought it might have been a lovers ' quarrel , but now I 'm not sure … " |
| 22 | In the second appeal , counsel thought it might have been relevant that the accused was shown not only to be the possessor of a deep , gruff voice , but also to hail from a working-class area of Dublin . |
| 23 | And in fact it 's grown to twenty areas in the intervening thirty odd years , so that 's not bad emp empire building really is it ? thought it might have been one hundred and forty eight by now but it 's not . |
| 24 | I thought it might have been yo . ’ |
| 25 | For a long time they thought it might have been dysentery , but thank goodness it did n't turn out to be that serious . |
| 26 | Some of those who had commented on the draft of the new programme , Gorbachev revealed , thought the term should have been entirely removed ; others , on the contrary , thought it should have been dealt with at greater length . |
| 27 | My sister thought it must have been a mistake , and kept the pound notes in case he came back for them . |
| 28 | The house was more modern than she had expected — at a guess , she thought it must have been built between the wars . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought it must have been a road block because one said to the other : ‘ Go for it ’ and they speeded up . |
| 30 | I thought it must have been . |