Example sentences of "[vb mod] 've [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | And should 've gone abroad but I would n't go I er I er I had this position offered in the electricity works here then |
2 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
3 | I got one with a big chunky battery , it should 've lasted about six month to a year |
4 | Well I should 've won anyway because I 've got sixes and fives . |
5 | ‘ She must 've gone away , ’ said Scarlet , gratified to hear of the dead plants and Barbs 's dereliction of duty , for she had been rather hurt not to be asked to mind Eliot . |
6 | he must 've fell about six feet |
7 | ‘ He must 've flown away so quick , we did n't spot him , ’ said Connor . |
8 | It must 've taken quite a bit of courage for the girls to have kept their babies . |
9 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
10 | Now I think if , if , if I 'd 've received this I 'd 've thought right we 're off . |
11 | If you 'd 've known then what you knew after you wouldn't 've thought it were funny , you 'd 've not been chucking nowt you 'd 've been off . |
12 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
13 | cos I 'd 've got further and further and there 's no way he was going to tell me I 'm wrong . |
14 | You 'd 've stuck there , Molly Coddle . |
15 | We could 've played outside , could n't we ? |
16 | You could 've done right , okay , well you 're here now anyway . |
17 | Here , where I could 've done better , if only I 'd understood , if only he 'd helped me ; if only this , if only that . |
18 | Rufus looks great , could 've done more with the aliens |
19 | They could 've done more with the ‘ ol wizard too : unable to use most of the flashy weapons from the armoury , he accumulates huge amounts of dosh as he has nothing to spend it on . |
20 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
21 | The A4 contains a good variety of usable sounds in both user and preset modes , and with the A4 plugged into a Boogie combo and using an Aria ‘ Mad Axe ’ I could 've headed straight to the gig . |
22 | Well I did n't think they could 've gone straight into socialization because they did n't have the resources to . |
23 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
24 | I mean I went straight in , tell me about your wife , I mean you could 've said well she 's not my wife |
25 | I mean in , in , in retrospect they probably could 've achieved it because they , they got the military er they , they , they did get the military security and you probably could 've afforded actually to , to mobilize the peasants through land reform . |
26 | I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out |
27 | yeah , but obviously the canteen is part of the college and could 've have still burnt down the college . |
28 | Yeah , I I ca n't think of any other things that you know that would have led to us sort of withdrawing our labour , e everything else could 've settled amicably or through discussions with the union . |
29 | The thing I noticed was that they 're all close questions , you like the area , now Martin was very fair to you because you , he was very me most you could 've got very much did you move because of your , yes . |
30 | I 've operated er , various positions on the Celtic fringe , and I could 've replied briefly to my colleague from Wales in |