Example sentences of "would [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't suppose it would be thinking about it now , because they would probably have to join the queue like everybody else , would that be right ? |
| 2 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 3 | And he would be thinking of her , and wanting her , and watching the raindrops as they spattered against the window . |
| 4 | If they had been , even now they would be thinking of the night to come . |
| 5 | Most people Ernie 's age would be thinking of more sedate exercise ; WALKING the dogs perhaps , but this is far more exciting . |
| 6 | And this is why I think the approach that Harrogate would perhaps be thinking of and we ourselves would be thinking of if this is the way we wanted to go is simply to go out and get a site and get planning permission on it . |
| 7 | ‘ And you immediately assumed that you had outstayed your welcome and I would be thinking to myself , ‘ Mon Dieu , now I have to face that idiotic English girl . ’ |
| 8 | Soon , she knew she would be thinking in terms of shock , stress , guilt reaction , grief , anxiety , a clouded mind . |
| 9 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 10 | A clue to confirmation would be to think of any recent accident in this regard . |
| 11 | If something had to be labelled with this vogue word ‘ citizenship ’ , they no doubt felt that the more they included in their responses , the better they would be thought to be discharging the task of citizenship education . |
| 12 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |
| 13 | Some exorcisms , for example , describe conditions which today would be thought of us mental illness or , in some cases , epilepsy . |
| 14 | Picking it up and pretending to do a rather elaborate waltz along the road with it , on the other hand , would be thought of as a much more creditable act of hooliganism . |
| 15 | In any case , there is nothing here that would be thought of value in the shining land beyond the golden river of Frith . |