Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] i [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 I should have known I would have problems when I crossed the border of a place whose name I could hardly pronounce — Mosonmagyaróvár .
2 ‘ My dear brother must have guessed I 'd come here and tipped them off , but then he would n't know I had these . ’
3 You must have guessed I 'd be somewhere in the hotel . ’
4 You knew I had returned from Australia , and you must have known I 'd come immediately . ’
5 But Birmingham must have won today cos they had equal top must have won I would have thought .
6 Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and
7 Well I 'll have to tell I 'll tell them that you 're head then young teachers and just go out and join a class of tutors .
8 Was after world war one anyway I mind of that , so say it might have been in the twenties he might have done I would n't say proper
9 I might have guessed I 'd get no sympathy from Claire .
10 You might have thought I 'd happily become a little playmate for you to while away a few tedious hours with , but let me tell you , Mr Jacobsen , you were way off the mark . ’
11 Yeah well we 've got set jobs but I mean like we 'll say look I 'll do post for you today if you do it for me like whenever
12 If I could 've chosen I would 've got a girl more sophisticated , talk awhile , have a few drinks then screw .
13 ‘ If I come through that without any reaction I 'd like to think I 'll be in the frame for the return leg with Stuttgart . ’
14 I 'd like to think I 'll get better .
15 I 'd like to think I can call you at home if there 's something I need . ’
16 But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave .
17 I mean I 'd like to get I 'd like to get some more pots and things for the patio and fill them up and I 'd like to get a trellis on the side of the house with all flowers and that on there but
18 I 'd have done I 'd have done a quick , a little man carrying a bag with dollars
19 I suppose if you 'd asked me before all this happened , I 'd have said I 'd give in , but I was so angry .
20 I mean , if I 'd have been , If I 'd have know I could of coming back down cos Bill came back down to work Tuesday
21 If I 'd have known I would have brought that this morning
22 David , if I 'd have known I 'd have took wha other one out .
23 Who 'd have thought I would be able to say that I trained Marmaduke " Duke " Hussey , chairman of the BBC , in TV interviewing technique ?
24 Yet who 'd have thought I 'd be given another chance like this ? she thought .
25 I must say I 'd have thought I could rely on you to calm people down .
26 they 'd leave themselves open to some criticism erm because the beneficiaries of whoever otherwise may be entitled to the shares may have said I would like to have those shares .
27 If I wore those track braces I would 've had I would n't have been able to clean my teeth properly
28 Mr Davies has now written to me in connection with his research on BCR , saying — ‘ if anyone would like to help I can certainly suggest ways in which they might do so .
29 ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’
30 I would n't I would like to think I could .
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