Example sentences of "think it would " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of blokes say the reason they got into music in the first place was they thought it would be a great way of pulling women . |
| 2 | She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife . |
| 3 | But Dot had thought it would n't ever happen to their baby . |
| 4 | I grow Thermopsis montana in my own garden and would not have thought it would last well in water . |
| 5 | Who would have thought it would come to this ? |
| 6 | Who would have thought it would be her , Minnie ? |
| 7 | Clive had thought it would be Judi and Coral again , on a much larger scale . |
| 8 | ‘ Who would ever have thought it would end like this ? ’ |
| 9 | I had thought it would be fun , but I had not expected to be able to rock 'n' roll by the end of the evening . |
| 10 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |
| 11 | And Japanese fishermen would pay huge sums for a tortoiseshell tom , to keep as a ship 's cat , for it was thought it would protect the crew from the ghosts of their ancestors and the vessel itself from storms . |
| 12 | She 'd thought it would be easy to find her . |
| 13 | His father had thought it would be a good idea to ask for the boats to be blessed at a time when Whitby Harbour was crowded with the big Scottish fleet which was following the herring as they moved south . |
| 14 | She had been in a squat in London but had thought it would be pleasant to have some sea air for the baby for the summer . |
| 15 | Self-government failing to arrive — how extraordinary that he should have thought it would — a campaign for the non-payment of taxes was initiated in Bardoli , near Bombay . |
| 16 | She had thought it would heal quickly by itself , but her son insisted that the GP look at it . |
| 17 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 18 | Anabelle felt like curling up in a ball and plugging her ears until they all went away — and she would have , too , if she had thought it would do any good . |
| 19 | When they had taken him from the hospital block with his possessions and spare clothes in a cloth sack he had smiled and shaken hands and believed that the flight was close , Berlin he had thought it would be . |
| 20 | Odd that the Captain had thought it would help . |
| 21 | He had thought it would be easy to approach her , but now , watching her remotely like this , he knew otherwise . |
| 22 | It was the first time she had allowed herself to get into conversation with any man , and it was not the frightening experience she had thought it would be . |
| 23 | I wanted to hate him for doing this to me , so much earlier than I had thought it would be done , but it was difficult to hate a man I had such respect for . |
| 24 | I 've always thought it would be fun — We never celebrated Christmas at home . " |
| 25 | I 'd always thought it would be embarrassing to have a man undress you , especially the suspenders which are so ugly and comic , but I helped , and except for the girdle which must be the most resistant , unromantic garment since the chastity belt , it was all easy and delightful . |
| 26 | Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me … |
| 27 | No longer the much cosseted bearer of Robert 's son ( he had never thought it would not be a boy ) , a being set apart : real life suspended until it should all be over . |
| 28 | In his wildest nightmares he had never thought it would come to this . |
| 29 | You 'd have thought it would occur to them to make it fire-proof , as well . |
| 30 | It hurt , they did n't feel anything much about it , and it was not at all the way they had thought it would be . |