Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should 've got him to do it first . |
| 2 | And I who should have healed it severed it . ’ |
| 3 | Well and even that did n't jog his memory , that he should have asked her to judge it ! |
| 4 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what I thought must have made her do it . ’ |
| 6 | I said well he must have done something to deserve it . |
| 7 | We 'll have seen nothing like it before in boxing history . |
| 8 | The Inspector concluded , ‘ The questions we have to ask , therefore , and which we hope you may be able to help us shed some light on are , one , who was motivated to kill Hereward Marr ; two , what precisely might have provoked them to do it ; three , who drove the mini into the Broad and four , where is Mrs Marr at this moment ? ’ |
| 9 | She was ashamed to think that Rupert might have discovered her looking it up . |
| 10 | I suppose any number of people could have seen you leave it there . ’ |
| 11 | When he died six years later he left her all his gardening books : not just the technical instruction manuals , but coffee-table picture books , historical studies and a collection of exquisite , hand-tinted Victorian flower drawings , and a Beatrix Potter original which , she now knew , would keep Maggie in shoes for the rest of her childhood if Phoebe could have brought herself to sell it . |
| 12 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |
| 13 | I would have thought you 'd have spared her reliving it all . ’ |
| 14 | Erm I 'd have thought you dropped it . |
| 15 | Again , I think I may have underestimated it hearing it on Yuri Bashmet 's disc straight after his amazing performance of the Viola Concerto . |
| 16 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 17 | I am sure your grandmother would have wanted you to spend it on something that would bring you happiness . |
| 18 | A return to Uulaa at festival time always brightens me up , even with danger around , and I would have liked someone to share it with . |
| 19 | You seem to have an emotion , that made you resent making a sacrifice to your brother , and , and presumably , would have stopped you making it , if you 'd been free to choose . |
| 20 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
| 21 | ‘ We are toasting missing colleagues who were with us in the buffet and who would have preferred us to do it this way , instead of being sombre , ’ said Mr Christopher Reeves , a consultant engineer who joined the train at Southampton Parkway station . |
| 22 | If they were that good they would have told you to forget it until you had a good message or product to project ! |
| 23 | He would have taken her to make it his own , just as he is now taking you . ’ |
| 24 | you have n't got any hot water at the moment that 's why I said that should well I would have thought he did it but you got no hot water then that should keep going until the water stops . |
| 25 | So whatever sort of question comes up you will have seen something like it would n't you ? |