Example sentences of "[coord] i [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would 've , me brother and I would 've got a pub in erm excuse me asking these questions because it 's a bit vague , you know |
| 2 | If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life . |
| 3 | Well , he used to come home and say that and I 'd say put a suggestion in but |
| 4 | The acoustic in the solo works is a shade reverberant , and I 'd have liked a longer gap after the Concerto , but the recording quality throughout is very acceptable . |
| 5 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 6 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 7 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |
| 8 | So all I 've got to do is when I run out again fill it up again spending another twenty five quid 's worth or so that would have been six and I could have had a free Corgi toy for Ricky for Christmas . |
| 9 | Oh I 'm not bothered about things like that , but I would have liked a decent size garden . |
| 10 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 11 | No , but I could have seen a , there 'd be an almighty tantrums from the other two if Ji er |
| 12 | It was a great strike but I could have driven a bus through the gap in our defence . |
| 13 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |