Example sentences of "[vb infin] thought a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have thought a woman would have died of shame . |
| 2 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 3 | Would you have thought a year ago that you would be spending your next name-day in Paris ? |
| 4 | I would not have thought a youth of such tender years would have been able … |
| 5 | You would n't have thought a small-circulation satirical magazine could excite such ignorant indignation . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you must have thought a lot about who killed Dominic . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 8 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 9 | Typically they now run multinational operations , or parts of them , and spend a great deal more time in the air or in foreign hotels than their predecessors would ever have thought a necessary part of the publishing process . |
| 10 | Erm but I think I think certainly I would have thought a place like Reading probably half their people set the exams anyway so |
| 11 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have thought a photographer came prepared with much film , ’ Felipe grated , not all pleased to be spoken to like this . |
| 13 | I would n't have thought a wilderness would warrant a hostess . ’ |
| 14 | In a week or so you would have thought a crowd of angels had wafted in from putney singing my name and crying ‘ Hosanna ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I would have thought a family would have been only too glad to get an unmarried daughter off its hands . ’ |
| 16 | You 'd have thought a man like that , strict , he 's supposed to be — ’ |
| 17 | He mentioned the Environmental Law Foundation , specifically set up to assist citizens to protect their interests in securing a better environment — I would have thought a lot of people would have been interested in that . |
| 18 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 19 | I should have thought a little evidence of human frailty would merely enhance your reputation — and the association would do mine a power of good ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I would have thought a whacking great palace more to your taste ! ’ |
| 21 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 22 | Well she must have thought a lot of |