Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] n't have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should n't have been content to be just a wife . ’ |
| 2 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 3 | There were date palms in the middle ground and I should n't have been surprised to see a pyramid in the distance . |
| 4 | Cor I would n't have been proud ! |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won . |
| 6 | And if I did , I would n't have been mad enough to tell him . |
| 7 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 8 | With so little fat in the diet I would n't have been surprised to receive reports of dryness , but I had no reason to worry . |
| 9 | It would n't have been , if they 'd had any furniture in when we , when we first got in I would n't have been surprised to see it painted round there as well . |
| 10 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 11 | Only a few weeks ago I was in such a fog , I would n't have been able to write any of this . |
| 12 | I would n't have been able to see that gateway , so I ca n't say whether she was there or not , at five . ’ |
| 13 | Even then I knew in a way that despair underlay my behaviour , but I would n't have been able to take the consequences of its admission . |
| 14 | I would n't have been able to see you . ’ |
| 15 | I mean , without him in the back I would n't have been able to do it , but I always tell everybody I was the carer . |
| 16 | I would n't have been able to forget it , if you had . ’ |
| 17 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
| 18 | ‘ If you loved Ruth I would n't have been able to — I would n't have looked after Ruth as I have . ’ |
| 19 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 20 | ‘ If you 'd really wanted to hurt me , you 'd have let Ash go ahead with the publicity , would have backed him up , and I would n't have been able to deny it because it was all based on the truth , but a twisted truth ! |
| 21 | Eventually I would n't have been able to stop myself . ’ |
| 22 | I think if I 'd had er no teeth I would n't have been able to manage at all , or if I had |
| 23 | If I wore those track braces I would 've had I would n't have been able to clean my teeth properly |
| 24 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , if you did n't exist since I was last here , you could n't have been bored . ’ |
| 26 | I know now that you could n't have been involved in Clive Kemp 's drug-running plans . |
| 27 | She need n't have been afraid ; Roman drove quickly and smoothly , without speaking a word . |
| 28 | ‘ And you ca n't have been married long . |
| 29 | She would n't have been surprised to see her hair had all turned white ; but it was the same face looking back at her . |
| 30 | She would n't have been surprised to see the wall behind it char and burn . |