Example sentences of "least it [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | One mother ( the widow of a lamplighter ) was a machinist at a printer 's ( bookbinding ? ) , and in this case at least it may have been the mother who introduced her daughter to the trade . |
| 2 | At the very least it might have asked itself how it intended to make money selling American shares to Americans at a time when Wall Street 's native giants were incapable of doing so . |
| 3 | At least it might have done if its launch had n't been followed two days later by the scandalous sentencing of drink-driver Christopher Hart . |
| 4 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 5 | It was a macabre sight , strongly reminiscent of a scene from a TV western — or at least it would have been . |
| 6 | She would have refused him of course , but at least it would have shown that he still admired her . |
| 7 | At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again . |
| 8 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |