Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |
| 2 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 3 | Well I 'll check in case I might have picked it up with my school stuff , to be honest |
| 4 | Of course I would have contacted you . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I should have charged them ! |
| 6 | I must insist we get back to the boundaries , I 've repeatedly had to do so this afternoon I would have thought it that the message would have got over to me honourable members before now . |
| 7 | ‘ If you were n't Eddie 's kid sister I 'd have given you a far harder ride for what you 've just accused me of this evening , so do n't push your luck , Dr Kate Ash , because you might come to regret it ! ’ |
| 8 | It was the best wedding present I could have given her . ’ |
| 9 | If he had n't been covered with blood I would have recognized him . |
| 10 | If you had waited for me to return and confronted me with your distress I would have told you . |
| 11 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 12 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 13 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 14 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 15 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 16 | ‘ There is a question I ought to have asked you before , Joe . ’ |
| 17 | For me , their own evaluations and this record book tells more about the progress of the children than any written examination I might have given them . |
| 18 | ‘ If you were in danger I would have told you , ’ he went on . |
| 19 | Once I found out the truth I would have sold it anyway . ’ |
| 20 | If he had n't had the business I would have left him within a month . |
| 21 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 22 | Just the one night I would 've excused you . |
| 23 | ‘ I would have come after you , and unlike your father I 'd have found you , had I to go to the ends of the earth ! ’ |
| 24 | There 's no one standing there so it 's getting caught up in that traffic jam at the bridge I would have thought they 're all queuing to get on the bridge in the morning . |
| 25 | ‘ You are the last woman I would have thought I would want — you 're everything I despise , but you 're in danger of becoming an obsession and there 's only one way to deal with it : we 'll make love until we 're sated with each other , then we 'll both be free to go our separate ways and forget we ever met . ’ |
| 26 | By definition I must have seen it with someone else , but the fact that , at the time , our own coupledom was predicted only by Nostradamus was irrelevant . |
| 27 | In the days when I used to drink alcohol I 'd have said it was possible to do it only on the basis of several glasses of sherry . |
| 28 | Had I still been suspicious of a haemorrhage I would have sent him to Edinburgh for a brain scan . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And if I broke a leg I 'd have done it whether you were with me or not . |
| 30 | His brother , on the other hand — this did seem a little odd , now that I come to think of it — had apparently learnt his German locally ; from his voice I should have said he was Austrian . |