Example sentences of "i [modal v] have [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose I ought to have thought of that . |
| 2 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 3 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 4 | Of course I did n't say anything , but I must have reacted in some way and it got through to him , because he seemed more relaxed from that point on . |
| 5 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a question I should have asked before this , Steve . ’ |
| 7 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 8 | I should have thought about this before , he thought . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I should have thought of that . |
| 10 | I should have thought of that . |
| 11 | Sorry — I should have thought of that before . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have that to tell you that I should have told before this , since it has to do with the issue that is now in dispute among all here . |
| 13 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 14 | I do n't really I think I might have come across that before once when I was doing my placement on actually . |
| 15 | I could 've run with that . |
| 16 | I could 've done with that ! |
| 17 | Well I could 've bought with that |
| 18 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 19 | But honestly , I could have gone on all night . |
| 20 | I could have done without that , she thought , and the short-cut past the farm . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have done without this , ’ she said , and then she got into the truck . |
| 22 | ‘ I could have done without this tonight , ’ Luke said . |
| 23 | But I could have done without this messy little scene in front of my fellow operatives , Lil , and some big guns from other departments . |
| 24 | His hobby is fishing and do-it-yourself things and he 'll just go out and buy the tools and I think , ‘ Oh that money , what I could have done with that money ! ’ |
| 25 | I could have done with that on the wall in , on my landing . |
| 26 | I hope I could have done with that |
| 27 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 28 | Er I 've followed them down but the vehicle I could have got in another vehicle . |
| 29 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 30 | if I 'd have known about that , if it goes , it goes and it do n't we should get something out of it . |