Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 2 | Their Kipling characteristics would surely have immediately attracted man 's attention , and he would soon have thought up other ways of increasing the frequency of such useful animals . |
| 3 | These are serious painters , Exekias ( like Nearchos before him ) showing sometimes a sensitivity of feeling one would hardly have thought attainable in this formal decorative medium . |
| 4 | ‘ Who would ever have thought it would end like this ? ’ |
| 5 | Dear God , who would ever have thought , looking at the insignificant scrap , that she could affect the world more than a dry leaf ? |
| 6 | During her years in Helmsley , she had missed life on the farm more than she would ever have thought possible . |
| 7 | Typically they now run multinational operations , or parts of them , and spend a great deal more time in the air or in foreign hotels than their predecessors would ever have thought a necessary part of the publishing process . |
| 8 | Bede 's methods led him to give 680 for a year he would otherwise have thought of as 679 . |
| 9 | Strangely , she found herself thinking along lines similar to those her great-grandmother would likely have thought , putting money first : where does he get the money to keep two houses ? |
| 10 | ‘ I would never have thought it ! ’ she kept repeating . |
| 11 | She would never have thought of criticizing his hardness . |
| 12 | And in his turn , Lord Dersingham would never have thought of recruiting one of his servants from anywhere except from among those born on his own land . |
| 13 | If we 'd had a boom economy over the last five years , the Stock Exchange would never have thought of phasing out the USM . ’ |
| 14 | Almost as though she knew that Matey was thinking about her , McAllister looked up and said , ‘ I would never have thought that I would enjoy knitting so much , and the ladies ’ sewing circle , too . ’ |
| 15 | She would never have thought that she could feel like this in her whole life . |
| 16 | It was something that she would never have thought possible and now that it had actually happened , now that she knew she was n't dreaming , she wanted it to last . |
| 17 | Then the figure spoke again , and Jim 's heart leapt like he would never have thought possible a few nights earlier , as he recognised the nasal drawl of the red-neck trucker called Jube . |
| 18 | He would never have thought of bringing it out against Yussuf . |
| 19 | she said now that looks artificial , but I would never have thought the |
| 20 | Well I would never have thought of that . |
| 21 | They would certainly have thought that such events were unlikely to happen for millennia to come — if at all . |
| 22 | Jane Austen , whose attitude to the Gothic will shortly be discussed , would certainly have thought Disraeli 's proposal ludicrous as a means of restoring authority to great houses ; but the notion has its actual antecedents in certain aspects of eighteenth-century Gothic taste . |