Example sentences of "have thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have thought that is part of the reality with which legislators are faced , part of the situation within which they operate . |
| 2 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 3 | Yet who would have thought I would talk to myself in this way in these notes ? he wrote . |
| 4 | You may have thought I had thrown them away , or merely , forgotten about them , and I was entitled to do either , since you explicitly said I was to do exactly whit I liked with them , that you washed your hands of them completely . |
| 5 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 6 | How could I ever have thought La Tartine d'Albertine would make a good title ? he wrote . |
| 7 | I would have thought the UK hotelier would have nothing to fear from a European directive , ’ he said . |
| 8 | After all , I came along when he must have thought you were safe to be a bachelor for ever and ever , and now he 'll never be a lord and everything . ’ |
| 9 | I would not have thought you … |
| 10 | You 'd have thought they were best friends or something , except that girls do n't have proper friends the way boys do . |
| 11 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 12 | She said it was tragic because of Kezia , and the way she went on you 'd have thought it was all my fault . |
| 13 | ‘ Parysatis did it with a chicken and I should have thought of it before . ’ |
| 14 | I would have thought it was your duty to take law … |
| 15 | Should have thought of that before . |
| 16 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 17 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 18 | ‘ You know well enough , James — you must have thought — once the government is resolved , and we have talked ourselves hoarse and there is no ink left in the country — then the dragoons will come in and cart the young men away as though we have done nothing . |
| 19 | ‘ I would have thought your work was whatever Mellowes told you to do . ’ |
| 20 | Why speculate what Mother Anne might have thought about modern glues — they had none and she spoke to the brothers and sisters in their instant present . |
| 21 | Who a decade ago would have thought it possible that the chief benefactor of bus deregulation would be BR ? |
| 22 | Whoever would have thought it possible ? |
| 23 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 24 | WHO would have thought , back in 1980 , that we would now be reading in the popular railway magazines a number of reports that British Rail 's Provincial sector possesses some routes which are promising to become profitable ? |
| 25 | Who but Ashton would have thought of giving this country yokel so delicate a movement ? |
| 26 | One would have thought that Marxism and Lacanism would inhabit wholly disparate worlds of thought ; the former is rationalistic and teleological , whereas for Lacan , as Bowie says , ‘ arguments directed towards a terminus are falsehoods ’ . |
| 27 | Very little , I would have thought , though the student of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature is likely to encounter both of them . |
| 28 | He knew too that the poem he was engaged upon , The Cantos , was unprecedented and ( he must have thought ) sui generis . |
| 29 | The jury that awarded her £600,000 may also have thought she had suffered enough in her life , he said . |
| 30 | I should have thought Professor Lejeune 's research and clinical findings on prevention of deterioration in Down 's children by administration of folic acid or thyroxine in appropriate cases to be particularly newsworthy . |