Example sentences of "would [not/n't] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 2 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 3 | ‘ I would not think you need go quite so far , ’ Bragg said , picking up the file . |
| 4 | You would not think her unduly burdened with worries , if you watched her crossing the campus , smiling at people she knows , her eyes bright , her brow unfurrowed . |
| 5 | Potential new readers of Spare Rib would not think of looking under that section for a women 's magazine , and I assumed it was a mistake on the part of overworked staff . |
| 6 | You would not think a broken shoe . |
| 7 | I did my best to reassure her that I would not think her stupid , no matter what her problem . |
| 8 | Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them , and she would not think so either … . |
| 9 | On a first consideration one would not think that there would be appreciable stresses parallel to the crack surface but on reflection it will be seen that this must always be so . |
| 10 | Conceptually this mistake can be pointed out by indicating that unless the rules in question had important relevance to central areas of human concern we would not think of them as constituting a system of law . |
| 11 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 12 | You would not think so from January 's media furore on British Telecom 's new identity . |
| 13 | ( e ) I would not think it right , especially bearing in mind the development of the concept of economic duress , to regard the categories of compulsion for present purposes as closed . |
| 14 | If he was to walk in here today and I knew he was my stepfather , I would not think twice about putting a knife through him . |
| 15 | I would not think of him as evil , but he could not have felt real love for me . |
| 16 | ‘ If |
| 17 | ‘ If |
| 18 | He had asked a great many questions of the exiled Court and he hoped , he said earnestly to Oisin , that they would not think him inquisitive . |
| 19 | She would not think about it . |
| 20 | She would not think of kissing and being kissed before the white eyes of the Virgin . |
| 21 | If Oliver had seen him now he would not think he was a man who was finished , he would see a desperate will to survive and defend himself . |
| 22 | The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome . |
| 23 | Would Soyer — no , he would not think of Soyer . |
| 24 | He seemed to her to be too splendid to wash dishes ; even Glyn would not think of it , and Alain seemed to her to be a figure of towering importance , the most masculine man she had ever seen . |
| 25 | No , she would not think of that — no , never that , and she began to wield her feather duster with such angry vigour that Dr Neil , coming in , was amused at her bright energy which even the ever-lasting drudgery which she performed could not dim . |
| 26 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 27 | You would not think from the way Lavinia lived that there was anything at all ! ’ |
| 28 | She would not think . |
| 29 | She would not think of her dry mouth or her empty stomach , or the clammy chill of the dungeon that had seeped into every bone in her body . |
| 30 | She would not think of the pitiful remains in the corner . |