Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] used a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Mimi Rogers fill up the background prettily enough , but director Roger Donaldson could really have used a sharper script |
| 2 | We do know that he could n't have used a beehive . |
| 3 | ‘ I would go down to the beach around 7am for an hour and would not have used a proper skin care procedure . |
| 4 | " We ourselves would not have used a comma in the example above because we think in that example there is a greater degree of interdependence between the parts of the sentence . |
| 5 | Oliver said : ‘ A real professional would probably have used a finer cord . |
| 6 | Had I gone on with this research at the depth which I had in view I would undoubtedly have used a far more informal interview and , having chosen possible points of difference , I would have introduced these in the interviews and let the informants develop the themes themselves . |
| 7 | If she suspected she had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries , she would never have used a pejorative word about the married state , since she had no personal experience of it . ) |