Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] thought that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have thought that it had a hell of a lot to do with you . ’ |
| 3 | I should have thought that it was a good idea so that he could see , from time to time , individual complaints about the businesses that he has the responsibility for regulating . |
| 4 | I should have thought that it was much more sensible to make proposals from the start for both a station and a link . |
| 5 | I should have thought that it would be common ground that it is right to review such organisations from time to time to establish whether they are achieving their objectives . |
| 6 | Given that he served in Cabinet for many years , I should have thought that he would be more objective and would not simply take as his evidence two cases from the front page of the News of the World . |
| 7 | ‘ Since you had yourself a very good motive for murdering him , I should have thought that you would wish to help me identify anyone else who had . ’ |
| 8 | Settlement ‘ I would have thought that they would have learned from the public ridicule of the last month and made certain that they did n't get up to these things again , ’ he told the Press Association . |
| 9 | I would have thought that we could request the fenc the fencing and tell them our plans for the fencing and not lose anything by asking for them |
| 10 | I would have thought that we might go on holiday , well going on quite a long holiday , we 're going on holiday after the project video 's completed , so it 'll be Christmas for me |
| 11 | I would have thought that you could have got more than 32Kb of Upper memory from QRAM . |
| 12 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 13 | I would have thought that you 'd be delighted to invite Calder back just to put your views across again , even though there is n't anything between you both , as you 've been at pains to tell me ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I would have thought that he , as local MP , would have managed to come and visit us , even though he is busy . ’ |
| 15 | I would have thought that he would have been down slightly more less |
| 16 | People like Mr Falk are trained and I would have thought that it is people like him who should be involved in such programmes . |
| 17 | of thing so I would have thought that it 's the sort they 're looking for . |
| 18 | If some project comes up during the course of the year , I would have thought that it might be appropriate to erm er cobble the name of centenary onto it , but I do n't really think that this year we just commit ourselves to something just because there 's a hundred years of parish government coming up . |
| 19 | I would have thought that it is the DoT 's responsibility to make some provision for cyclists on main routes like this . |
| 20 | Erm but I I would have thought that it would have been necessary to examine that sector against all the others before reaching any conclusion as to whether or not i it could be more successfully assimilated into the landscape of that sector as opposed to anywhere else . |
| 21 | In terms of the the A nineteen also I think scores reasonably highly on this criterion , the A nineteen south cos again I I would have thought that it does lend itself to assimilation of a new settlement . |
| 22 | I would have thought that it is in the government 's interest to promote efficiency , it 's certainly in the government 's interest to maintain the public interest with regard er to fraud or other wrong doing er but it 's something that the government ought to look at and again it seems to me that it ought to be a matter that er could be looked at if there was a proper inquiry . |
| 23 | I would have thought that it was at least five hundred , because there are so many hidden homeless who are sleeping on people 's floors . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 25 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 26 | Especially after all the hype about 15pt gap you 'd have thought that they 'd have been looking at the ‘ nearest rival trying to close the gap ! ! ’ . |
| 27 | Erm you 'd have thought that they would have taken the trouble to erm you know to do some bit of arm twisting . |
| 28 | But you know it 's funny how why it was so I mean the grit and those were quite sharp you know You you 'd have thought that it would have taken your skin but then it was ideal stuff for getting the grease the you know the dirt and I mean the the greasy dirt away . |
| 29 | Who 'd have thought that we were so important ? |
| 30 | ‘ Do you know , ’ said Jessica , ‘ I was standing at the bus stop once , and two little Catholic girls came along so sweet you would have thought that they were angels . |