Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have liked to have seen Sligo at the turn of the century , or failing that , in sunny weather . |
| 2 | I should have liked to have said come and be our guests , but , having been redundant since last October , Julia did indicate on the phone that you would be willing to pay the basic going rate . |
| 3 | The tremendous post war housing development within the Borough has not benefited North Shields nearly as much as it should have done had its position been central . |
| 4 | There is no sign that silver was running short by 864 , as it should have done had tribute-payments made huge inroads into the total supply . |
| 5 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Of course , in an ideal world we should have preferred to have passports for all British nationals in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 7 | Know , if you kill me for my fault , I should Have died had I not made it . |
| 8 | But erm , she just had it combed out , but it looked , she should have had to have it combed because now , I said you would not like it , because it looks too sophisticated and I , I think it do n't look like there 's quite I 'll get it after him . |
| 9 | Both for not being prepared , not giving the opening of this course the importance that it did deserve , and obviously for the embarrassment that er you must have felt having to sit there while I made a total fool of myself . |
| 10 | How he must have wished to have been in the puppet 's place , no policies , work and no strings attached . |
| 11 | For me , his victory last season with Ten Plus when there were only four runners , convinced me his chaser would win him another Gold Cup , a race he must have won had he not fallen at that fatal third fence from home . |
| 12 | The defendant must lie proved to have had this mental state , i.e. knowledge or recklessness . |
| 13 | The drawback to this claim is that the defendant ( usually the manufacturer ) must lie shown to have been negligent . |
| 14 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 15 | … it could have no real importance after the visit to Osborne in the course of which Napoleon III having tightened the alliance with England had nothing much to say to the Emperor of Russia , his enemy of the day before yesterday , his friend of yesterday — but not his ally of today , which he might have become had it not been for the recent drawing together of the Courts of the Tuileries and St James . |
| 16 | She had stared at him wide-eyed , unseeing , and any desire that he might have felt had died in that instant . |
| 17 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 18 | ‘ I might have done had I had time … and had I remembered . |
| 19 | I found his blend of assurance , diffidence and wit beguiling , and I have often wondered what he might have done had he been born free . |
| 20 | When his daughter Nannette inverted that action to make her down-striking action , she included the check , completing her father 's piano action as he himself might have done had he seen Gottfried Silbermann 's pianos , or indeed those of Cristofori , rather than those of Johann Heinrich Silbermann . |
| 21 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 22 | Operators have got another couple of weeks in which to take decisions on capacity for the summer , so they might not cut back as much as they erm , they might have done had the war still been ongoing , so we should still have plenty of holidays available this summer . |
| 23 | This is not really good enough for a supposedly authoritative special publication under the RSC 's banner and I feel that , overall , a more convincing book might have emerged had all the papers been independently refereed . |
| 24 | The East India Company might have liked to have been able to take the same detached attitude as the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 25 | The stale-mate might have continued had Louise not needed to go to Rome to look at apartments and make arrangements . |
| 26 | It might have continued had a prisoner on death row , Almond Nofomela , not made a dramatic confession on the eve of his execution on October 19 , 1989 . |
| 27 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 28 | If the Witch King had started this long war , Tethlis was determined to finish it , and he might have succeeded had it not been for the decline in power of the dragons . |
| 29 | Designed as an ‘ everyman 's ’ aeroplane , the venture might have succeeded had the market economy at the time been more buoyant . |
| 30 | ( If you pride yourself on being intelligent , for example , bear in mind that someone else might have chosen to have a limited intellect in this life in order to learn from the experience , perhaps because they have over-valued intelligence in the past . ) |