Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 2 | So this is that 's why these do n't have the dimples on them , whereas they should have done if they 'd You see so there 's al there 's incredibly subtle things that you can you can pick up . |
| 3 | I mean really what he should have done if it , if it was that difficult he should have gone back another half a brick and the j bricked it up all the way |
| 4 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 5 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 6 | Chant 's sarcasm was n't lost on Estabrook ; nor could he resist the recognition that this was not a game he should have entered if he 'd hoped to stay lily-white . |
| 7 | But he 's been told he should have shaved if he 'd wanted the job . |
| 8 | after that , and then this , the fans must have wondered if they were destined to be watching a nil-nil draw . |
| 9 | Plaudits are nice ; this time , however , Mr Patten must have wondered if he was not being killed by kindness . |
| 10 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 11 | — He 'll have panicked if I know him , that Warden . |
| 12 | ‘ Paint ? ’ he queried , as though it was an item he 'd never come across , much as he might have sounded if she 'd said she was going to buy a giraffe , she thought on a spurt of amusement . |
| 13 | The answer to that seemingly simple question depends on what Tory tabloid readers might have done if they had not read Tory tabloids . |
| 14 | Scarlet did n't argue as she might have done if she had n't had a large vodka . |
| 15 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |
| 16 | ‘ I might have done if I could have got my arms free , ’ Leith replied , and took another sip of her coffee . |
| 17 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 18 | But the past conditional is a notoriously tricky area , even for mother-tongue speakers , and there 's no point in speculating on which way the final result might have gone if we wouldn't 've scored that first goal , Ron . |
| 19 | Perhaps the worst scourge is the thought that you might have listened and might have understood if I had managed to tell you what had happened . |
| 20 | It was so different from the artist 's usual work that without the bold signature , the single surname , Dalgliesh might have wondered if it was , in fact , his work . |
| 21 | In most of the examples discussed in this chapter , the finished product is a smooth curve which resembles what we might have drawn if we had smoothed the raw data by eye ; looking from the smooth back to the rough we could usually see the trend in the raw data . |
| 22 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 23 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 24 | The second is that she left to escape all the criticism that might have ensued if she stayed behind . |
| 25 | Who knows what you might have got if you 'd played your hand right ? ’ |
| 26 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 27 | ‘ God only knows what might have happened if ye had screamed . ’ |
| 28 | There is nothing as joyful for the opinionated as to have finally been proved right and I ca n't help but think there are many marginally employed musicians around Ireland today who weep or harrumph glumly into their pints when they think what might have happened if they 'd listened to Nicky . |
| 29 | But , in a dream sequence during the crucifixion , we do get a glimpse of what might have happened if he had . |
| 30 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |