Example sentences of "think it be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I would n't have thought it 's in the real realms of practical politics to persuade the German government or indeed any other government to renege on a contract which has been signed .
2 I should have thought it was at the bottom
3 prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops .
4 Not a word I would of thought it was worth finding out the meaning of .
5 ‘ I would n't have thought it was beyond the realms of possibility . ’
6 yeah , I thought it 's worth
7 They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ?
8 No they 're not hot I thought It 's like pork pie
9 It seemed that people thought it was about kinky sex ; at best it was taken as the onset of senility .
10 And you thought it was about hair .
11 Tallis thought it was about the middle of the day .
12 It was about , I thought it was about how erm how erm
13 Yeah , I thought it was about the best one ever .
14 They send them a post card through and I thought it was about February , but Win reckons it 's the end of March their booster time .
15 It was a training programme for young unemployed blacks in the inner cities , and O'Brien , knowing that Charles already had an interest in this area through the Prince 's Trust , thought it was worth seeing if Charles would help .
16 An opinion poll in the Sunday Times showed that 80% of the population backed Britain 's military involvement , and 60% thought it was worth the loss of British servicemen 's lives to regain Kuwait .
17 Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse .
18 ‘ I thought it was worth something ! ’
19 That might sound a ludicrous attempt to escape paying for a colour TV licence , but he obviously thought it was worth a try .
20 Even so , I thought it was worth persisting , trying to get her to remember noises , smells , anything that would give us a clue to where they were taken .
21 ‘ I thought it was worth a try , so I drove up here , booked myself in at a hotel down the road .
22 If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try .
23 Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates .
24 But I thought it was worth it , until this happened .
25 Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started
26 ‘ I would , ’ she retorted , ‘ if I thought it was worth my while spending the money .
27 Carella explained his idea to me , and I thought it was worth following up .
28 And at Cantley in the same diocese the vicar thought it was worth making some comment on a baptism that took place on 12 October 1754 :
29 They thought it was worth around £100,000 , until a valuation for council tax arrived putting in the highest band — band H — for properties worth more than £320,000 .
30 Miss Sherwin said she found out the stall had been sold for below the price she thought it was worth and felt ‘ ripped off ’ .
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