Example sentences of "but i [vb mod] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I would not have been able to concentrate properly on my own game . |
| 2 | White added : ‘ It 's great to get my game back , but I would not have been disappointed if Alan had won . ’ |
| 3 | Even then I knew in a way that despair underlay my behaviour , but I would n't have been able to take the consequences of its admission . |
| 4 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
| 5 | I said two to three years , I do n't deny it , but I would n't have been spending every minute of that time working to pay off what I owed you . |
| 6 | I do n't think he was any more upset , but I might n't have been paying attention . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But I could n't have been more wrong . |
| 8 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 9 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 10 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 11 | I was a lot more worried about you — versatile I might be , but I 'd never have been able to do the make-up you 've created ! ’ |