Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] have thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Indians of a literary turn of mind might have thought of W.B. Yeats : ‘ Things fall apart ; the centre can not hold ; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know what the girl must have thought . |
| 3 | The boy must have thought himself still dreaming , for he was completely unruffled by the presence of three strangers at his bedside . |
| 4 | Although if he had done so we doubt whether that committee would have thought it necessary to take any proceedings against the barrister . |
| 5 | You know , because I think we as parish council would have thought that we were interfering if we suggested that we should go to observe somebody 's group meeting . |
| 6 | Went into the supermarket and it said and it said pour , not it said erm pour le animal , well any fool would have thought that was poor the animals , and Carol said that looks nice , we 'll , we 'll have a pile of that ! |
| 7 | What heart could have thought you ? — |
| 8 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 9 | No religious person would have thought so . |
| 10 | So backers latching on to John Dunlop 's Jazeel on his debut at Doncaster last month must have thought they had discovered a goldmine . |
| 11 | ‘ Sure , a woman could have thought it out and done the carpentering . |
| 12 | A task she had to perform , a necessity ; an observer could have thought she had been ordered to do this , to sit on that step with her fingers pushing her flesh about over her face . |
| 13 | As the dance continued , some of them began to snap their limbs about with convulsive movements that Ace would have thought would have dislocated those limbs in an instant . |
| 14 | But the question must arise : what was it that Handel and his assistant would have thought of as a large harpsichord in 1750 ? |
| 15 | THE LIDs OVER the cannons ' eyes slid open as the pirogues approached ; the watch would have thought that he was only imagining the narrow prows breaking the black water , but the order had been given , ‘ Full alert ’ , and so the English sailor trusted his eyes and raised the alarm . |
| 16 | I would have thought someone of Mr Vivian 's experience would have thought of this . |
| 17 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 18 | As he left that all-too-familiar graveyard and tramped home through the snow , Charles the Cheesemonger must have thought that the century was drawing to an unpropitious end indeed . |
| 19 | ‘ And I 'm equally sure , ’ McGann went on , ‘ that Bill must have thought us bishops blind to the potential for a Communist threat in this hemisphere … |
| 20 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ I thought — any man would have thought — that if I did n't look for knowledge , good family , and wealth in a wife , if I sacrificed all that , I would be sure of finding a country girl who was at least pure … but … but I should not accuse you . ’ |
| 21 | Only a sentimental , middle-class idiot would have thought of it . |
| 22 | But for 15 minutes before the curtains went up the audience must have thought that the obnoxious Sheriff of Nottigham was sitting immediately behind me … |
| 23 | ‘ I wonder , ’ said Robert idly , ‘ what the prophet would have thought about computer games . ’ |
| 24 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 25 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 26 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |
| 27 | He was smitten not especially by Sandra 's looks , but by her whole demeanour , and those who were around at the time must have thought he had understated his feelings when he said later , ‘ It was a no-big-deal act for me . |
| 28 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 29 | There is no reason to think that Anselm would have thought there was any contradiction between personal humility and the display of the greatness of his office : quite the contrary , humility and grandeur met in the exercise of his function as a ruler . |
| 30 | ‘ Quite a change , ’ said Jane , wondering what mother would have thought of this fashion plate . |