Example sentences of "would [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long all that would remain of The Haven would be yet another pile of rubble . |
| 2 | What writer , after all , would think of despising a part of speech for performing its indispensable task ? |
| 3 | Greenaway has said he hates the idea of a shot in a film being only a preposition , linking what went before and after — but what writer would think of despising a part of speech for performing its indispensible task ? |
| 4 | Then he would think of the undertaker forcing that convoluted form into a cheap coffin and the lid being screwed on . |
| 5 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 6 | After rhapsodising about his wife 's ‘ pert , piquant , oh so pliable private parts ’ , he casually inquires what she would think of him if he had breasts . |
| 7 | Frankly , only an MEP who spends his life flying around the Community at the taxpayer 's expense , would think of conducting such a fatuous experiment . |
| 8 | ‘ Were I transported to Italian Plains , and lay by the side of a streamlet that murmured thro' an Orange-Grove , I would think of thee … ’ |
| 9 | Alexander realized that the right thing to do would be the last thing that we would think of doing , if left to ourselves . |
| 10 | The last thing it would think of would be working . |
| 11 | No one , not even a baker hunting for a thief , would think of looking there . |
| 12 | My parents lived in constant awareness of the big house and its occupants , and we children were imbued with the problem of what the squire and his household would think of any action or behaviour . |
| 13 | The plan was simple : run up , jump on to Kong 's back , pull him off the fallen Godzilla , throw him to the ground and then — well , we were n't sure what to do then , but we would think of something . |
| 14 | How many stepmothers would think of that ? |
| 15 | No one would think of hoarding a year 's stock for such a free tipple . |
| 16 | What exactly he was n't sure , but he would think of something . |
| 17 | Sometimes in the middle of a celebration , Christmas or Easter , she would think of him and the knowledge of how he had been murdered would cast a shadow over everything . |
| 18 | Hardly anybody would think of Richard Wilson or Wright of Derby for instance they 'd think of Turner or Constable . |
| 19 | But who would think of refusing Lucy 's invitations , providing as they did the last vestige of a social occasion within the enclave ? |
| 20 | " How flattering it would be to one 's pride if at the moment of leaving you were sure that you left a memory behind , that she would think of you more than the others . " |
| 21 | She remembered her early unsuccessful struggles for equal treatment and wondered what her sisters would think of this news . |
| 22 | The letter was couched in terms which contrived to suggest that if it was not acceptable then he would think of something better . |
| 23 | And now she would never be able to imagine them again because she would think of Finn 's wet kisses . |
| 24 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll be damned , ’ he said to himself ‘ I wonder what Irina would think of that ! ’ |
| 26 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 27 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 28 | Perhaps she would think of him one day with less ill-will than now , but not for very long at a time ; not obsessively , not like this . |
| 29 | And often I would think of Rendlesham Hall . |
| 30 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |