Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right I shall have let me go and get the matches . |
| 2 | Only I would have liked it to last a bit longer , ’ he added softly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps I ought to have told you before . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I would have liked him too — if I 'd known him . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum ? |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps I should have killed you then , ’ Rosheen quietly . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I should have joined you , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Perhaps I should have done it before , but I suppose one 's always afraid of making a fool of oneself . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps I should have told her to concentrate on school . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps I should have let them go . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Perhaps I could have dissuaded her . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’ |
| 17 | So I might have seen yours |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So I must have wanted them , you see . |
| 20 | So I must have passed it on . |
| 21 | So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Normally I would have completed it well in advance , but it 's been a busy week . |
| 24 | Had you not I would have lent you some instructional literature — onanism is , you see , terribly important , a most efficacious ritual . |
| 25 | So there 's a lot of the discussions have taken place and also I would have briefed you a bit er |
| 26 | But if I 'd 've , if I 'd 've been up I 'd 've got it . |
| 27 | A great chance lost , for had I kept as careful a lookout in front as I had behind I should have seen her before she saw me . |
| 28 | I 'm glad to see the two hundred thousand , though I would have picked it up under , erm , children already erm , over the age of about five , but maybe I 've got that wrong . |
| 29 | ‘ If I knew I would n't be asking you , and if I did n't know her inside out I would have said she was worried about something . ’ |
| 30 | But I mean stuff like memos small memos and things like that by the time I 've sat and written it out I could 've put it straight onto a word processor myself and got it typed . |