Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Right I shall have let me go and get the matches .
2 To explain it better I should have done what adds up to thirty six then up to three hundred and sixty should n't I ?
3 Only I would have liked it to last a bit longer , ’ he added softly .
4 If , by overruling the existing authorities , this House were able to change the law for the future only I would have urged your Lordships to do so .
5 I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean .
6 Perhaps I ought to have told you before .
7 Perhaps I would have liked him too — if I 'd known him . ’
8 Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months .
9 Cos Ken said , first of all he could n't find any and he said oh he said perhaps I should 've bought them when I saw them , nine ninety nine .
10 Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum ?
11 Perhaps I should have killed you then , ’ Rosheen quietly .
12 Perhaps I should have reordered my remarks and said ’ inconvenient , embarrassing or damaging ’ — sometimes deeply damaging .
13 Perhaps I should have joined you , ’ she said .
14 Perhaps I should have done it before , but I suppose one 's always afraid of making a fool of oneself . ’
15 Perhaps I should have told her to concentrate on school . ’
16 Perhaps I should have known there was something wrong ; the taproom was strangely quiet , the slattern had disappeared and the landlord seemed too busy to care .
17 Perhaps I should have deduced something immediately from that coincidence .
18 Perhaps I should have let them go .
19 Perhaps I could have freeclimbed it , but the problem was that I could n't predict the pockets and I would n't have found out until it was too late to avoid a monster fall .
20 Perhaps I could have dissuaded her .
21 ‘ I 've been told you 've recently specialled a similar medical case , but as Mr Francis is an accident case in addition to being allergic to antibiotics , personally I would have considered him a case for a trained special .
22 Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’
23 So I might have seen yours
24 I says what curling tongs , says you left curling tongs on , I 'd actually burnt my finger I must 've sleepwalked and I , I felt the bed when I remembered all this and it was dry so I must have sleepwalked it all and went to the toilet and done my hair cos there was a big burn all down my finger .
25 So I must have wanted them , you see .
26 So I must have passed it on .
27 So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me .
28 If you 'd have let me in I could have washed your back for you .
29 And how easily I might have missed you by not saying anything , but no , you have too much good sense , you would not have stood by and said nothing , would you ?
30 Normally I would have completed it well in advance , but it 's been a busy week .
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