Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |
| 2 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 3 | Well I 'll check in case I might have picked it up with my school stuff , to be honest |
| 4 | Of course I would have contacted you . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I should have charged them ! |
| 6 | I must insist we get back to the boundaries , I 've repeatedly had to do so this afternoon I would have thought it that the message would have got over to me honourable members before now . |
| 7 | ‘ If you were n't Eddie 's kid sister I 'd have given you a far harder ride for what you 've just accused me of this evening , so do n't push your luck , Dr Kate Ash , because you might come to regret it ! ’ |
| 8 | If Kegan had waited another few minutes I could have got it settled . |
| 9 | It was the best wedding present I could have given her . ’ |
| 10 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 11 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 12 | If he had n't been covered with blood I would have recognized him . |
| 13 | If you had waited for me to return and confronted me with your distress I would have told you . |
| 14 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 15 | ‘ There are failsafes which should have stopped it from doing this ! ’ |
| 16 | The Doctor looked fascinated , explaining the nature of the injuries and the implements which could have caused them . |
| 17 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |
| 18 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 19 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 20 | Being an outsider she would have got it anyway , but this precipitated matters . |
| 21 | By the end of the interview she will have plaited it into a handy living-room rug , but for now Susanna wants to talk about her NME photo session . |
| 22 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 23 | Then her face cleared ; when she had leaned across to kiss Richard she must have nudged it off , and no doubt she would find it in her car when he brought it back in the morning . |
| 24 | Somebody took a shot not at the President they could have killed him easily but knocked off a man who could have swung thirty votes in favour of a Berlin settlement . |
| 25 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 26 | If I 'd have said , By the way at the end of this I have to take your photograph it would 've put you off . |
| 27 | If the crime had been other than murder he would have left it to his Scientific Officer assistant , not yet returned from a belated lunch . |
| 28 | And with Forest still at the bottom of the Premier League , Clough insisted : ‘ If I 'd waited to offer him the contract after Saturday he may have blown it . |
| 29 | This is necessary as a result of property writedown which would have left it in breach of its £350 million net worth banking covenant . |
| 30 | For a long time , Emerson simply failed to sign the contracts which would have kept him in front-rank racing . |