Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 2 | A major installation of Beuys , ‘ Arena ( where I would have got if I had been intelligent ) ’ , created in 1970–72 ( see The Art Newspaper No.16 , March 1992 , p.6 ) , remains on exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts until mid-April , while the MoMA exhibition travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles ( 30 May-15 August ) , the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 10 October-2 January 1994 ) and the Art Institute of Chicago ( 15 February-25 April 1994 ) . |
| 3 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 4 | Here , where I could 've done better , if only I 'd understood , if only he 'd helped me ; if only this , if only that . |
| 5 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 6 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
| 7 | ‘ Patrick weighed 8lb 7oz — ‘ I 'm lucky he was a big baby , or I might have ended up having him even more quickly . |
| 8 | Perhaps you or I might have got fed up with all the attention and been tempted to tell the crowds to go home and leave us alone . |
| 9 | Speak up or I 'll have wolfed it . ’ |
| 10 | Or I would have stamped , except that my feet hurt . |
| 11 | Instead of telling the silly tart to go and put some knickers on , as you or I would have done , these guys go all sweaty and hot under the collar , and stare at her , gobsmacked and embarrassed . |
| 12 | I slowed some more and it was just as well or I would have missed him . |
| 13 | I had to excuse myself and go out of the room , or I would have collapsed laughing at the doctor 's reaction . |
| 14 | He 'd pulled his finger back or I would have bitten it . |
| 15 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Either someone moved it or I must have got out of the lift on the wrong floor . ’ |
| 17 | For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached . |
| 18 | " It is a good thing you addressed me so politely , or I should have eaten you . |
| 19 | I did n't realize how much , or I 'd have written to you . |
| 20 | Or I 'd have called the police I think . |
| 21 | " Thank God you did , or I 'd have cracked up and had even less money saved than I have now . " |
| 22 | Obviously I 'd left the rabbits alone for too long , or I 'd have known about the existence of such a brute . |
| 23 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
| 24 | ‘ Hardly , or I could have asked it over the telephone , and avoided imposing upon you . |
| 25 | Spike proved to be a bad thing , as you or I could have told her . |
| 26 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 27 | As a penance , she became a hangman , although I would have thought she would more likely have become a candidate for hanging . |
| 28 | Colour-wise it looks a bit anaemic ; I presume its cellulose finish will darken , if you can wait that long , although I would have preferred Fender to have tinted the lacquer a little to increase the ‘ butterscotch ’ element in the colouring . |
| 29 | The writer had used 4 oz in 80 oz of 32 index fluid and , although I would have carried out a similar treatment as that ten years ago using saline , I consider this type of case nowadays has to be treated in a different manner , with up-to-date fluids and up-to-date knowledge — there are many first class fluids on the market today . |
| 30 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |