Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [vb pp] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since you needs must drag me here , I should have liked to see this Hotspur men talk so much about . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd have liked to see some of the famous places , like Rome and Paris and Moscow and South Sea islands and Jamaica and New York . |
| 3 | ‘ But without the special cover I 'd have had to pursue that claim on my own and it would have cost a great deal more . |
| 4 | sadly I would have said given enough warning . |
| 5 | Six months ago I would have loved to get some new sounds for my new rack from your magazine . |
| 6 | How I would have liked to play that , I thought , but chance would be a fine thing . |
| 7 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 8 | Check the conditions because you may have agreed to pay any increase between ordering and delivery . |
| 9 | Still , he was shocked that she should have chosen to play such a part . |
| 10 | Try to understand why you might have chosen to do that . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , she was killed the night before last ; but she could have gone missing some time before that . ’ |
| 12 | " You 'd have liked to watch that , Grandmother . " |
| 13 | Fabia , although she would have liked to ask that question , knew that they were not well enough acquainted for her to ask , or pass any comment that was more than a surface one . |
| 14 | She would have liked to make some cutting rejoinder but none came to mind so she went out , closing the door behind her . |
| 15 | ‘ I can walk , ’ she began , and might have added that she would have enjoyed to do that — had she got the chance . |
| 16 | On these grounds she would have preferred to give all selected schools £4,000 rather than select generally mediocre candidates into two categories . |
| 17 | Still , she thought , bracing her shoulders , if she had been a real mother she would have had to endure many such problems with a teenage daughter . |
| 18 | With a head as hard as hers , she would have failed to register any number of missiles lobbed her way , such as the Scarman Report which followed the Brixton riots of 1981 . |
| 19 | Either that or you will have decided to build that extension you 've both wanted for so long to put that rattan furniture in , and when it 's finished discover that the blessed stuff does n't fit at all . |
| 20 | By the time you have dictated the brief and asked the relevant questions you will have started to form some idea of the answers . |
| 21 | Sir Anthony Meyer : I my right Hon. Friend aware that the very ambitious urban aid programme that was announced today will be warmly welcomed and that there will be special pleasure that Clwyd has not suffered at the hands of south Wales , although we should have liked to see more projects ? |
| 22 | West Yorkshire 's chief probation officer said : ‘ The baffling thing is , even with hindsight , we are still left wondering what more we could have done to stop this killing ’ . |
| 23 | There was no way we would have dared attempt these routes had they sported their current designations then . |
| 24 | However , we would have wished to see those clauses altered . |
| 25 | If we had actually wanted to use them we would have had to do some tidying as the area of the bromide was somewhat less than A4 . |
| 26 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 27 | They may have tried to forget that period in their lives without coming to terms with some of the pain and guilt related to it . |
| 28 | Let us bear in mind how much they must have suffered to achieve such beauty . |
| 29 | ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . ) |
| 30 | But staff at Stoke Mandeville believe there was nothing they could have done to prevent this incident … |