Example sentences of "[not/n't] have thought " in BNC.
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1 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
2 | I would not have thought you … |
3 | One 's mind is occupied so much when one is young , but I wonder now if I could not have thought more about Beatrice . |
4 | I grow Thermopsis montana in my own garden and would not have thought it would last well in water . |
5 | Until this year , the expense-account diamond merchants and shipping barons would not have thought twice about paying up to £30 for turbot or lobster . |
6 | Last night I would not have thought that would worry me so much , but this morning it does . |
7 | I would not have thought a youth of such tender years would have been able … |
8 | I 'd not have thought it possible . |
9 | I would not have thought such a style of waiting a great stimulant to appetite . ’ |
10 | It is likely that he will still need the list of solicitors but , by not immediately closing the interview , the adviser may have explored issues which are important , which John may not have thought worth telling the solicitor . |
11 | There is , however , a very real difficulty here , and one which curriculum managers in the United Kingdom may not have thought about : that as a concept , ‘ managing the curriculum ’ is highly culture-specific . |
12 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
13 | AIDS is an issue which has enabled people to talk to one another and also think about issues which they might otherwise not have thought about — specifically about death at an early age . |
14 | JOHN CRIPPS has a few suggestions which you might not have thought of . |
15 | The clinician 's role is to bring into focus some areas that parents may not have thought affected the problem . |
16 | There 's one person you may not have thought of , and this would be the ideal opportunity to invite her . |
17 | What he wanted were answers to some of the things they might not have thought of . |
18 | Even so , I 'd not have thought him important enough . ’ |
19 | I would have thought it would have been better in the introduction rather as part of the minutes , would you not have thought so ? |
20 | Although we did not attend it , we had visited St Stephen 's , Gloucester Road , together , no doubt out of forgivable curiosity , though Eliot might not have thought excusable any curiosity he had been the means of exciting in that sphere . |
21 | It surprised him a little ; he would not have thought her so easily affected by a man 's touch . |
22 | What she could not have thought of was this sort of permanent liaison , almost a marriage . |
23 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |
24 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
25 | Although the speaker is obviously not denying the fact that the Senate dared to criticize the National Film Board in this use , he is saying on the other hand that he would not have thought it possible for Senators to dare to do such a thing , given the sacrosanct character of the media . |
26 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
27 | Fifty years ago most people would not have thought of RE in such terms . |
28 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
29 | And I 'm going to make a suggestion to my Noble friend Lord he has heard all the erm views which are critical of the Government 's approach and I would not have thought that he had much hope in the division lobby as quite frankly . |
30 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |