Example sentences of "think they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 2 | Problems had eased between them when Lori had left home to make her career in modelling , and Paige had actually thought they would end completely when Lori had married a wealthy American and gone to live in the States . |
| 3 | But er I would have thought they would have presented themselves better , had they have been er well a little bit more colour about it . |
| 4 | ‘ I would have thought they would have been in contact by now , ’ said secretary David Bowen . |
| 5 | It 's either that one , but I 'd have thought they would have . |
| 6 | I would have thought they would have given you erm something do n't you ? |
| 7 | I 'd of thought they would have got just as much sun and rain as everything else . |
| 8 | I would have thought they would have gone faster . |
| 9 | 344 for 1 meant a nine-wicket victory in a match that England had thought they might win . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | I would have thought they should have the girls cloakroom and a gents cloakroom separately . |
| 13 | Do n't suppose he had the strength left in that little body to fight back no more , though you 'd have thought they could 've saved him with these new pills they got . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 16 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 17 | I 'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral ; I 'd imagined cops slinking through the undergrowth , whispering into radios , gradually closing in . |
| 18 | why , in any case , should the Cro-Magnons have felt the slightest urge to exterminate the Neanderthals ( with whom it is thought they could have interbred ) ? |
| 19 | She had thought they could have fruit for dessert but the bananas looked a bit black and sorry , and there were only two ( bruised ) peaches left . |
| 20 | for three hours with a sur as the surgeon battled to save his life well I 'd have thought they could have plugged wounds with something other than a finger ! |
| 21 | Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to . |
| 22 | You 'd have thought they 'd choose somewhere else . |
| 23 | I would n't of thought they 'd do that |
| 24 | And at a time when the Ingard lot are pressed for money , he 's about the last person you 'd have thought they 'd go to any trouble over . |
| 25 | I would n't have thought they 'd bother with a |
| 26 | Though you 'd have thought they 'd have taken it off before bringing in their things . |
| 27 | You 'd have thought they 'd have rallied round him — given him their support . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't have thought they 'd have bothered , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Those two that you had in , you 'd of thought they 'd have bloomed quicker , but there 's they 're like that ! |
| 30 | I would have thought they 'd have been in touch about extending the guarantee through you . |