Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the family planning workers laughed : ‘ It may have hurt but she did n't get pregnant . |
| 2 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 3 | A g-g transition may be forbidden if considered as a purely electronic process , but it may become allowed if it is coupled to a vibrational process of u symmetry — if , for instance , a u vibrational mode is excited in the upper state . |
| 4 | A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions . |
| 5 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 6 | Outwardly it must have seemed that I had overcome my emotional difficulties and , apart from the mysterious phenomenon of my continuing thinness , had become a bright , helpful , well-adjusted member of the school . |
| 7 | It must have seemed like they dropped out the ceiling . |
| 8 | Mm yeah and apart from that the bloke that sold it must have known cos he |
| 9 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 10 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 11 | The entry specified that he had Spanish as a foreign language , which made me smile , for his Spanish had never been more than rudimentary , though of course it might have improved since he was in Salamanca . |
| 12 | Er , yes , I suppose , I suppose it , it could have done if you get a sickly baby and , and a sickly mother . |
| 13 | It would have done but he , he used to be what we called a proper chain smoker , oh he must have smoked hundreds of Woodbines in a week , must have been hundreds , that was his life . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have showed that we cared , and — ’ |
| 15 | The police responded by re-routing the march to the Catholic sector of the town but NICRA refused to accept this , since it would have implied that theirs was a sectarian march . |
| 16 | This is our actual workload and this is what it would have happened if we 'd followed the M R C er protocols . |
| 17 | ‘ None of it would have happened if I had n't gone chasing after Guy . ’ |
| 18 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 19 | She would have refused him of course , but at least it would have shown that he still admired her . |
| 20 | Well when I was It would have changed when I was well maybe my teens it would have changed I think . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't be silly , it would have rotted if it was that ancient . ’ |
| 22 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |