Example sentences of "[vb infin] think [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't know think it would be easier ? |
| 2 | I would 've thought they could 've like somebody with an older text , they could 've took the old one out and shoved one of these back into it . |
| 3 | I would , I would 've thought it would take |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd 've thought you 'd 've grown out of it by now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I should 've thought you 'd be tired of that by now . |
| 6 | ‘ I should 've thought you 'd want him to know . ’ |
| 7 | Oh I 'd 've thought he would 've done . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd 've thought he 'd 've talked to the gardeners . ’ |
| 9 | Julian : ‘ I 'd like to think we can get successful being the way we are , a gay man , a Welsh man and a Jewish man with no f—ing pretensions — our music is more interesting than other bands and we 're interesting people as well . |
| 10 | I 'd like to think we can have half a shandy together , someday . |
| 11 | Patrick did n't like to think what would happen if his mother ever discovered his association with Joseph . |
| 12 | He especially did n't like to think what would happen if his mother ever discovered that he was going to sneak out of the house to attend an illegal meeting a few days hence . |
| 13 | Brenda did n't like to think what might happen . |
| 14 | I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention |
| 15 | So that 's an important point and one which is not in Freud 's book although I 'd like to think it would have been , had he written it much later on when , when group erm therapy had become very fashionable . |
| 16 | He knew May was not unhappy , but he did n't like to think he may have bored her . |
| 17 | But I 'd love to have kids , and I would n't like to think I would never have another physical relationship with a woman ’ — Richard |
| 18 | But I 'd love to have kids , and I would n't like to think I would never have another physical relationship with a woman . |
| 19 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If I come through that without any reaction I 'd like to think I 'll be in the frame for the return leg with Stuttgart . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd like to think I 'll get better . |
| 22 | I would n't I would like to think I could . |
| 23 | I 'd like to think I can call you at home if there 's something I need . ’ |
| 24 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 25 | Who would have thought we would be watching the Kirov ( as they used to be ) performing a pas de deux from Antony Tudor 's The Leaves are Fading ? |
| 26 | Mr Duckworth said : ‘ I hope outside shareholders think it is a good deal though one or two may have thought we should have waited . ’ |
| 27 | If would have thought we should have had it two years ago , if we 'd got moving , but we have n't . |
| 28 | I would n't have thought we 'd need in this |
| 29 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 30 | I should have thought they might have had them in a separate house really but I suppose there wo n't be enough of them to begin with |