Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [vb pp] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 There is still the missing ingredient of ‘ power ’ : the nature of the replicators must somehow have influenced their own likelihood of being replicated .
2 Plus I learned that you know from from our group reading of my play the other week , I learned what the function of a director was because you know obviously I should n't have given you all your parts to read for a week to sort of work out what the inflection should have been .
3 The anger of the people ( especially African-Americans ) is totally understandable , but they should n't have destroyed their own communities to express their anger ’ — Heavy D
4 For the first time she began to wonder if she 'd been foolhardy — no matter how strong her desire to get away , she should n't have put her own safety at risk .
5 He should n't have put it all in his mouth at once .
6 ‘ You should never have sent him that valentine . ’
7 ‘ You should never have sent me that cruel letter this morning .
8 UNTIL now , you might not have recognised your own home if you had read its description in an estate agent 's particulars .
9 She might not have had it all
10 ‘ The kinema might just have had its own generator . ’
11 In time she might even have threatened your own position .
12 He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date .
13 Had it not been for her chance meeting with Estabrook — who saw through her tumbling , distracted manner to the woman she was — she might well have taken her own life .
14 Retiring BBC chairman Sir Marmaduke Hussey might well have managed one this time around .
15 I 'd rather have said it all to his face !
16 If the prey were large the carnosaur could not have eaten it all at once .
17 His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight .
18 Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life .
19 And afterwards — no-one could possibly have heard her own conversation with Dominic .
20 Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ?
21 Though he could n't have said what that purpose might be .
22 That could n't have done him any good . ’
23 Er could n't have done him any harm .
24 A Conservative government had emerged that the Liberty and Property Defence League could well have called its own , but as a consequence it was a government that had very little to do with Conservatism .
25 As well as major settlements with minsters , hamlets and farms may well have had their own small churches .
26 I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice .
27 I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . ’
28 I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus .
29 He 'd called their previous alliance interesting , but she would not have called it that .
30 Otherwise Signor Gismondi would not have granted you this rare opportunity .
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